The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

Ancient humans were regularly making tools out of animal bones 1.5 million years ago – more than a million years earlier than ...

Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years.

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical thinking and advanced craftsmanship.

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

A new consensus paper provides an updated evaluation of reference bone turnover markers (BTMs) and newer markers in the ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of prehistoric animal bones in Tanzania that suggests early humans figured out how to transfer tool-making techniques "from stone to bone" 1.5 million years ...

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An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and hippos reveals what scientists are calling a technological breakthrough for ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought ...