A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.

The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...

A 1.5-million-year-old cache of animal-bone tools reveals that ancient humans systematically crafted with this material much earlier than previously thought. Researchers uncovered 27 bone ...

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged ... represent the oldest known evidence of systematic bone tool production by hominids, according to archaeologist Ignacio de la Torre of CSIC-Spanish ...

Ancient humans were regularly making tools out ... could adapt the techniques they used to make stone tools to repurpose bone, a very different material. It also raises the question of why there ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.

OUR ancient ancestors were churning out bone tools 1.5 million years ago ... of the CSIC Instituto de Historia. Early humans saw the animals they lived with on the African savannahs as a ...

"It's very, very hard." Dr Njau and his colleagues have unearthed 27 ancient crafted bone tools, mostly from the legs of hippopotamuses and elephants in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Their ...