A stone hand axe called a biface made in Europe around 400,000 years ago A reconstruction of the famous Austrolopithecus afarensis Lucy. Which hominin made the bone tools at Olduvai Gorge remains a ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old. By Carl Zimmer Humans, unlike most other species, have a knack for making tools.

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by ...

Learn more about the archaeological discovery of an ancient elephant carcass surrounded by hundreds of butchery tools.

A 15,000 year old piece of a whale vertebra from the Basque site of Santa Catalina, Spain. © Jean-Marc Pétillon, Eduardo Berganza Perhaps the greatest challenge to ...

Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human evolution by more than a million years, a study said Wednesday. Ancient ...