The oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, a finding that suggests our ancestors were much ...

An ancient animal bone discovered in a quarry about 20 years ago has been donated to a museum. The bone from a palaeoloxodon ...

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

Early hominids were systematically producing bone tools at least one million years sooner than archaeologists previously ...

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

Scientists discovered world's oldest known bone tools in Tanzania, revealing early human intelligence and innovation 1.5 ...

"It's very, very hard." Dr Njau and his colleagues have unearthed 27 ancient crafted bone tools, mostly from the legs of hippopotamuses and elephants in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Their ...

In 2015, scientists conducted extensive research to determine the size of this elephant based on fragmentary leg bones. The result of this study led to the conclusion that P. namadicus was probably ...

Such a blade would be handy for removing meat from elephant and hippo carcasses ... The uniform selection of the bones – large and heavy leg bones from specific animals – and the consistent ...

The bone tools measure up to around 16 inches (40 centimeters), with the largest being a sharp blade made from the humerus of an elephant ... off the thick ends of leg bones and using a stone ...