Prof. Erek: "The differentiation of this tool industry and use of varied materials point to the period's industrial ...

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Twenty-seven standardized bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by a team of scientists from the CNRS and l'Université de ...

In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds a bone tool found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, at the CSIC-Pleistocene Archaeology Lab in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone. The bones, fashioned into narrow projectiles for hunting, had been uncovered in excavations ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, an ancient people left their possessions in a cave in the Caucasus Mountains of modern-day Russia. Centuries would pass before the site was found again — and a ...

(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 ...

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 ...