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

The Oldowan age (2.7 million to 1.5 million years ago) represents the dawn of human tool use. Characterized by the very ...

Episode Transcript Episode 2 - Olduvai stone chopping tool Olduvai stone chopping tool (made 1.8 million years ago) found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, East Africa.

The bones constituting the finds came to light in the fruitful Olduvai Gorge and consisted of an almost complete skull in close proximity to a tibia and fibula of an individual named by its ...

Olduvai Gorge This cleft in a remote African plain cuts through deposits uniquely rich in the remains of weird animals and the tools of early men who lived from 400,000 to 15,000 years ago ...

New discoveries made in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania by an international team led by Ignacio de la Torre, CSIC-Spanish National Research Council, push back the archaeological record of bone-tool ...

They were found in the Olduvai Gorge in East Africa Credit: 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 ...

The discovery of this stone tool helped to prove that humans evolved in Africa This chopping tool is the oldest humanly made object in the British Museum. It could be used for many purposes ...

Windows into human evolution Olduvai Gorge is in East Africa, which is home to some of the earliest evidence of both tool production and use among early human ancestors.

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.