The bone tools measure up to around 16 inches (40 centimeters), with the largest being a sharp blade made from the humerus of ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

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

The development of tool technology is considered a pivotal step in human evolution. Deliberately shaped stones are thought to ...

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

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...

For decades, anthropologists believed that early hominins—our distant ancestors roaming Africa over a million years ago—had a ...

Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human ...

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

Objects discovered in Tanzania and dated to 1.5 million years ago help to rewrite human ancestors’ use of carved bone ...

A study led by the CSIC with involvement of the UAB reveals that the production of bone tools 1.5 million years ago was methodical and systematic ...