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

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

since organic wood and fiber that would have likely been used in constructing Paleolithic seacraft rarely survive in the archaeological record. These stone tools offer a new way in. The most ...

When a team of archaeologists followed an ancient trail marked by stone cairns to the top of a mountain in Norway, they weren ...

Scientists have discovered 1.5-million-year-old bone tools, proving early humans had advanced skills much earlier than ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

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

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“The tools show evidence that their creators carefully worked the bones, chipping off flakes to create useful shapes,” Renata Peters, University College London archaeologist, said in a statement.