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

Eighteen of the bone tools were made from animals that weighed more than two ... The newly discovered bone tools from Olduvai contribute to our understanding of how hominins engaged with ...

Early humans began crafting stone tools more than 3 million years ago by chipping off flakes to form shapes and sharp edges ...

(Angeliki Theodoropoulou/CSIC via AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make ... and hippos found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found ...

The early hominins who inhabited the Olduvai Gorge shared their environment with predators such as felines and birds of prey, making survival a constant challenge. Until now, it was believed that ...

The Olduvai Gorge bone tools were found alongside various stone implements ... reflecting cognitive advances and growing technological skills as well as a recognition that animals can provide a source ...

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools ... from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone ...

The Olduvai Gorge bone tools were found alongside various ... and growing technological skills as well as a recognition that animals can provide a source not only of meat but of raw materials.

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say. Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil ...