An ancient elephant bone hammer from southern England reveals that early humans used rare materials to precisely sharpen ...

"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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers study the markings left by ancient human ancestors when they used elephant and hippopotamus bones to create tools 1.5 ...

A total of 27 bone tools found at Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge Technology breakthrough is earlier than previously thought Researchers suspect tool maker was species Homo erectus The 27 tools, discovered ...

Humans living about 400,000 years ago produced an unprecedented diversity of elephant bone tools, including pointed tools for carving meat and wedge-shaped tools for cracking open large femurs and ...

An emerging set of archaeological evidence may answer a key question in the human origins debate by providing proof that not only did early Homo sapiens come "out of Africa," as Homo erectus did, but ...

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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 ...

Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania boasts sediment layers dating back to about 1.8 million years ago. Those layers contain simple stone tools that marked one of the earliest recorded technological ...