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 in Tanzania's ...
Early humans began crafting stone tools more than 3 million years ago by chipping off flakes to form shapes and sharp edges in a process known as knapping. There was previously no evidence that our ...
The handcrafted tools found in Tanzania were made 1.5 million years ago and were fashioned primarily from the bones of ...
The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.
The bone tools measure ... heavy leg bones from specific animals and the consistent pattern of alteration makes it clear that early humans deliberately chose and carved these bones, reflecting ...
A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ... or gnawing by other animals — ruling out the possibility that natural causes resulted in the tool shapes, she added. The bone tools date from ...