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

Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral ...

These were not just random tools made opportunistically, but show a consistent manufacturing process that must have been ...

The tools may have been made and used by Homo erectus, Homo habilis or Paranthropus boisei. “It could have been any of these three, but it’s almost impossible to know which one,” said Pobiner. The ...

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

“Out of Africa” has some plausible ideas, namely that Homo erectus advanced and went into colder climates and became Homo heidelbergensis, which led linearly to modern humanity. However, that requires ...

Pero hace 1,7 millones de años, Homo habilis evolucionó y dio paso a Homo erectus y a una nueva cultura, la Achelense, que duró hasta hace 150.000 años y era la más sofisticada. Esta especie producía ...

27 herramientas óseas estandarizadas descubiertas recientemente en el desfiladero de Olduvai, en Tanzania, muestran una ...

Hasta ahora se pensaba que la fabricación de herramientas con huesos de animales era una habilidad casi exclusiva de nuestra especie, el Homo sapiens, pero un estudio ...