Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

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

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged ... represent the oldest known evidence of systematic bone tool production by hominids, according to archaeologist Ignacio de la Torre of CSIC-Spanish ...

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

"It's very, very hard." Dr Njau and his colleagues have unearthed 27 ancient crafted bone tools, mostly from the legs of hippopotamuses and elephants in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Their ...

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.

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 ...

The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...