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

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 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 27 fossilized bone tools within the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. For over a million years, early hominins had been shaping stone into tools. But evidence of ...

Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years. In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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(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 ...