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

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear.

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

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

The handcrafted tools found in Tanzania were made 1.5 million years ago and were fashioned primarily from the bones of ...

Scientists have discovered 1.5-million-year-old bone tools, proving early humans had advanced skills much earlier than believed.

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

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

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

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

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

Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the same region dating back 1.5 million years. It's the oldest collection of mass-produced bone tools yet known, ...