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Researchers excavating at a site in northern Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge have unearthed bone implements made by human ancestors 1.5 million years ago. This is around a million years earlier than ...

The research team at the Atapuerca archaeological sites ... Twenty-seven standardized bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in ...

A Chinese archaeological site in present-day Anyang, Yinxu, ... Olduvai Gorge ©"Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge" by Noel Feans is licensed under BY 2.0. - Original / License.

Then, in 1959, came the now-famous discovery, in Olduvai, of a 1.75-millionyear-old skull that Leakey named Zinjanthropus boisei, and which he asserted was the “connecting link between the South ...

If the archaeological record has been correctly interpreted, stone alignments in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge are remnants of shelters built 1.7 million years ago by Homo habilis, an extinct species ...

A bone tool made from a 1.5-million-year-old elephant bone discovered at the Olduvai Gorge site in Tanzania is seen in this picture released on March 5, 2025.

It is not exactly clear which hominin species made the tools, as both Homo erectus and Parathoropus boisei lived in the Olduvai Gorge region 1.5 million years ago, long before modern humans.

However the integrity of specific paleo-archaeological attributes and the overall sensitive landscape are to an extent under threat and thus vulnerable due to the lack of enforcement of protection ...

The bone tools measure up to around 16 inches (40 centimeters), with the largest being a sharp blade made from the humerus of an elephant. A discovery at Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge pushes back the ...