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

The bone tools, which all appear to have been systematically produced in the same style as one another, were found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge. The site is also where archaeologists have ...

The ancient tools were discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and are a million years older than any other shaped bone tools previously uncovered. Palaeolithic archaeologist at the Centre for ...

A remarkable discovery has emerged in the heart of Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, challenging our understanding of ancient human ...

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 ...

Twenty-seven standardised 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 ...

The Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania has a geology that fossil-hunters love. A river cuts through several layers of strata with four distinct beds. Bed I, the oldest, is about 2 million years old.

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.

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 ...