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

Previous discoveries of bone tools have occurred in isolated instances across Europe and Asia, but the 27 bones found at ...

While the bone tool kits found later in Europe, dated to 400,000 years ago, are much more refined, the Olduvai Gorge tools were more effective for heavy-duty tasks, Njau said.

Hominins at Olduvai Gorge may have been hunting prey 2 million years ago. Early hominins are known to have eaten meat, but until recently, the origins of the meat were less clear.

In 1931, at the age of 28, Louis Leakey made his first trip to Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania. His goal: to prove that Africa – specifically East Africa, where he had been born and grown ...

Prior to the latest Olduvai Gorge finds, the earliest evidence of systematic production of bone tools crafted with knapping techniques came from European sites dating between 400,000 and 250,000 ...

Then, in 1959, came the now-famous discovery, in Olduvai, of a 1.75-millionyear-old skull that Leakey named Zinjanthropus boisei, and which he asserted was the “connecting link between the South ...

Olduvai Gorge cuts through the southeastern plains of the Serengeti region in northern Tanzania. At the time these tools were created, our ancestors lived a precarious hunter-gatherer existence on ...

An impressively documented leading article in the British Medical Journal of June 13, 1964, discusses recent fossil discoveries by Dr. L. S. B. Leakey in Tanganyika. The bones constituting the find ...

Twenty-seven standardized bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by a team of scientists from the CNRS and l'Université de ...

While the bone tool kits found later in Europe, dated to 400,000 years ago, are much more refined, the Olduvai Gorge tools were more effective for heavy-duty tasks, Njau said.