The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical thinking and advanced craftsmanship.

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

Decades after its initial discovery, the skeleton of a prehistoric child who possessed both human and Neanderthal attributes has now been directly dated. Archaeologists have confirmed that the ...

It was the Acheulean culture, which was emerging in Africa at around the same time, that first cut stones into hand ... human line evolved, so did the sophistication of the tools we carved out of ...

Over a million years ago, ancient human ancestors sat down ... markings on stone which designate it as a hand axe or other tool don't usually look at bones. But with the discovery of this cache ...

It was the Acheulean culture, which was emerging in Africa at around the same time, that first cut stones into hand axes ... "but these bones have not been properly identified in other archaeological ...

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It means that human ancestors were capable of transferring skills from stone to bone, a level of complex ... of systemically produced lithic hand axes. “This discovery leads us to assume that ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...