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

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

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

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 ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found ...

Early humans used animal bones to craft tools — more than a million years earlier than scientists previously thought, ...

The discovery shows that ancient humans had more capabilities to make and use tools than previously known to researchers. The bone tools are 27 in number and they were discovered at Tanzania’s ...

"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 ...