Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania boasts sediment layers dating back to about 1.8 million years ago. Those layers contain simple stone tools that marked one of the earliest recorded technological ...

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by ...

A triangular artifact crafted from elephant bone was used by archaic human relatives to sharpen hand axes around 480,000 years ago in what is now the U.K., a new analysis reveals. The item — which ...

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say. Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil location, ...

Early humans used animal bones to craft tools — more than a million years earlier than scientists previously thought, according to new research published this week. A group of researchers from the ...

A closeup of the elephant bone tool’s striking surface, showing the marks of it being struck against flint tools. A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds a bone tool found in ...