The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai ... Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...

A recent discovery in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge has revealed that early humans were crafting bone tools 1.5 million years ago, ...

For decades, anthropologists believed that early hominins—our distant ancestors roaming Africa over a million years ago—had a ...

Scientists discovered world's oldest known bone tools in Tanzania, revealing early human intelligence and innovation 1.5 ...

An archaeological discovery in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has changed our understanding of the technological evolution of ...

Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

Stone tools from this period are thought to have been created by Homo erectus, an extinct species that resembled modern ...

These are humanity’s first knives, says the 48-year-old CSIC researcher. Until now, the oldest known bone tools were from ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania's Olduvai ... Gorge, at the CSIC-Pleistocene Archaeology Lab in Madrid in 2023. Credit: ...

The 27 tools, discovered at a rich paleoanthropological site called Olduvai Gorge, were probably created by Homo erectus, an early human species with body proportions similar to our species Homo ...