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

For a long time, tool technology was seen as a uniquely human trait, associated with the genus ‘Homo’. Now we know tools go ...

In a nutshell Archaeologists discovered 27 bone tools dating back 1.5 million years at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, pushing ...

Before this discovery in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, in which CENIEH participated, researchers believed that hominins only ...

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

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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.

A reconstruction of the famous Austrolopithecus afarensis Lucy. Which hominin made the bone tools at Olduvai Gorge remains a mystery. Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ...

A fossilized bone tool discovered in Olduvai Gorge has an irregular and sharp surface. (Image credit: CSIC) The researchers were further able to narrow down the species of animals used to make the ...

The skeleton is a rigid framework of bones that forms the supporting structure of the musculoskeletal system, and also functions in movement, haematopoiesis and endocrine regulation. Skeletal ...