A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...
These were not just random tools made opportunistically, but show a consistent manufacturing process that must have been ...
The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.
A group of scientists have discovered some 27 bone tools made some 1.5 million years ago by ancient humans in Olduvai Gorge ...
For decades, anthropologists believed that early hominins—our distant ancestors roaming Africa over a million years ago—had a ...
An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...
Archaeologists have discovered a large collection of ancient tools crafted out of hippopotamus and elephant bones, pushing ...
Olduvai Gorge is in East Africa ... Louis and Mary Leakey, which discovered early human fossils … and the world’s first human stone tools ignited my fascination and fueled the dreams of ...
Hippos were common in the area but elephants were not, meaning their bones were probably carried to Olduvai Gorge from elsewhere, according to the researchers. No ancient human fossils were found ...