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

Archaeologists have discovered a large collection of ancient tools crafted out of hippopotamus and elephant bones, pushing back the age of bone tool kits made by ancient humans a million years.

Archaeologists have discovered three-million ... The knives and stones are known as the Oldowan tool kit. CUNY archaelogist Tom Plummer said the knives allowed pre-human ancestors to access ...

Even older artifacts recovered at Olduvai Gorge come from a bone tool kit, the scientists say ... tools resemble pear-shaped stone hand axes. Archaeologists consider stone hand axes the main ...

“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.

Archaeologists in Tennessee have just identified the world’s oldest known tattoo kit — which dates back ... pigment-filled half-shells, and stone tools. Deter-Wolf and Peres noted with ...

(CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection ... the study authors said. While the bone tool kits found later in Europe, dated to 400,000 years ago, are much more refined, the Olduvai ...