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

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

A recent discovery in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge has revealed that early humans were crafting bone tools 1.5 million years ago, ...

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

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

OUR ancient ancestors were churning out bone tools 1.5 million years ago – a million years earlier than we thought. Dozens of tools belonging to the handy lot have been found, rewriting the ...

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 humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

Olduvai stone chopping tool (made 1.8 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa. Perhaps the best thing of all about being Director of the British Museum, and one that still ...

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 ...

These are humanity’s first knives, says the 48-year-old CSIC researcher. Until now, the oldest known bone tools were from ...