A group of scientists have discovered some 27 bone tools made some 1.5 million years ago by ancient humans in Olduvai Gorge ...

Bone tool carved on an elephant humerus 1.5 million years ago. Credit: CSIC An archaeological discovery in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has changed our understanding of the technological evolution of ...

Early hominids were systematically producing bone tools at least one million years sooner than archaeologists previously ...

For decades, anthropologists believed that early hominins — our distant ancestors roaming Africa over a million years ago — ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

Before this discovery in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, in which CENIEH participated, researchers believed that hominins only ...

Renowned for its exceptional wildlife, as well as its rich heritage and cultural sites, Tanzania is strategically promoting ...

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

As it turns out, Olduvai Gorge still has much more to give ... perhaps early hominins in this particular region of East Africa experimented with bone tools, but the idea didn’t spread widely ...