The conservation of the wooden artifacts is an ongoing problem.
He said he believed it was the oldest wooden artifact in Zimbabwe.
A large number of pre-Columbian wooden artifacts have been found in Florida.
After a storm in February 1970, tidal erosion exposed hundreds of well preserved wooden artifacts.
In 1997, the ban was extended to all timber products except wooden artifacts.
He indicated a chair facing him across the desk, a simple wooden artifact native to this place.
Important bronze and wooden artifacts were also found in other tumulus burials at the site.
Warlpiri people have a long history of creating art on wooden artifacts, the body, the ground and rocks.
The collection is now considered to be the largest and most important group of well preserved ancient wooden artifacts excavated from the Near East.
Included are a site now under water, with rare preserved wooden artifacts and portions of wooden buildings.