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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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