WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

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.

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 ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds a bone tool found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, at the CSIC-Pleistocene Archaeology Lab ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

A total of 79 ancient sites, including river terrace settlements and military fortifications, were discovered in South ...