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

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

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

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

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

Ancient humans were regularly making tools out of animal bones 1.5 million years ago – more than a million years earlier than ...

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

Before this discovery in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, in which CENIEH participated, researchers believed that hominins only ...

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 ...

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, ...

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