A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known multifunctional tool made from cave lion bone, shedding new light on ...

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

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

Early humans used animal bones to craft tools — more than a million years earlier than scientists previously thought, according to new research published this week. A group of researchers from ...

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

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old.

Humans Have Been Producing Bone Tools For Over 1 Million Years Longer Than We Thought These were not just random tools made opportunistically, but show a consistent manufacturing process that must ...

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

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 ...