A team of researchers from the University of Burgos and the Atapuerca Foundation has published the first detailed analysis of ...

Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 27 fossilized bone tools within the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. For over a million ...

A 500,000-year-old elephant bone tool discovered in southern England is changing the way scientists understand early human ...

Were anatomically modern humans the only ones who knew how to turn bone into tools? A discovery by an international team at the Chez-Pinaud-Jonzac Neanderthal site settles the question. Published in ...

Bone tools found in a well-known Kimberley cave site are more than 35,000 years old and among the oldest discovered in Australia, according to new research. The research team from Griffith University, ...

New discoveries made in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania by an international team led by Ignacio de la Torre, CSIC-Spanish National Research Council, push back the archaeological record of bone-tool ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A collection of 27 1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania shows early humans had an ...

Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones. In a new study, University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist Paola Villa and her colleagues surveyed tools excavated from a site in ...

Archaeologists have identified Europe's oldest elephant bone tool from England that reveals the advanced toolmaking skills of ...

Ancient humans were regularly making tools out of animal bones 1.5 million years ago – more than a million years earlier than previously thought. This indicates that they could adapt the techniques ...

An ancient elephant bone tool found in southern England reveals early human sophistication. This ...