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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bone tool carved on an elephant humerus 1.5 million years ago. Credit: CSIC An archaeological discovery in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has changed our understanding of the technological evolution of ...

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 ...

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.