The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

Olduvai Gorge, an unassuming archaeological site in Tanzania, East Africa, has become known as one of the richest paleoanthropological places in the world. Alongside hominin fossils millions of ...

Olduvai stone chopping tool (made 1.8 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa. Perhaps the best thing of all about being Director of the British Museum, and one that still ...

They were found in the Olduvai Gorge in East AfricaCredit: CSIC They were discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. It's a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley, and contains evidence of ...

Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil location, represent the oldest known evidence of systematic bone tool production by hominids, according to archaeologist ...

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 ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral human species of hominid called Homo habilis 1.5 million years ago.

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.