World's Oldest Wooden Water Wells Discovered

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 23, 2012 @10:14PM from the they-were-just-lying-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have discovered four wooden water wells in the Greater Leipzig region, Germany, which are believed to be the oldest known timber constructions in the world. A team of experts led by Willy Tegel and Dr. Dietrich Hakelberg from the Institute of Forest Growth of the University of Freiburg, Germany, uncovered the wells built during the early Neolithic period between the years 5206 and 5098 B.C." The (quite short) paper itself, and some cool pictures of the artifacts, are freely available.

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Wooden Water Well by MrKaos · 2012-12-23 22:35 · Score: 3, Funny

Thus solving the mystery of neolithic web access.

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Re:Oldest known - definitely not oldest ever made by umghhh · 2012-12-24 01:44 · Score: 1, Funny

important is that the well does not have round corners so apple cannot sue.