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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Implements of varying sizes and shapes were identified as pieces of leg bones ... hominids sharpened the edges of bones. The largest tools, made from elephant bones, reached up to 38 centimeters ...

"It's very, very hard." Dr Njau and his colleagues have unearthed 27 ancient crafted bone tools, mostly from the legs of hippopotamuses and elephants in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Their ...

The bone from a palaeoloxodon - an extinct animal also known as a straight-tusked elephant which is believed ... old and was part of the upper front leg of the animal. Andrew Spooner, museum ...

The oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, a finding that suggests our ancestors were much smarter than previously thought, a new study reports. The tools, made from ...

they came across the bony remains of mastodons – elephant-like creatures that are now extinct. As news leaked about the discovery, the curious began gathering to watch as jaw bones, leg bones ...

Such a blade would be handy for removing meat from elephant and hippo carcasses ... The uniform selection of the bones – large and heavy leg bones from specific animals – and the consistent ...