Archaeologists Found 1.5-Million-Year-Old Bone Tools That Show Early Humans Were Unexpected Geniuses
The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.
Oldest Known Bone Tools Challenge Our Understanding of Human Evolution
The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...
Nature19d
Ancient humans used bone tools one million years earlier than thought
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 ...
New discovery of ancient bone tools from East Africa reveals greater complexity in the evolution of early human technology
The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...
CNN18d
Archaeologists uncovered a cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools. They’re trying to determine who made them
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Archaeologists have ...
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Tools made from elephant and hippo bones show ingenuity of human ancestors
A total of 27 bone tools found at Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge Technology breakthrough is earlier than previously thought Researchers suspect tool maker was species Homo erectus The 27 tools ...
Yahoo18d
1.5 million-year-old bone tools crafted by human ancestors in Tanzania are oldest of their kind
The oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, a finding that suggests our ancestors were much smarter than previously thought, a new study reports. The tools ...
Phys.org19d
Standardized production of bone tools by our ancestors pushed back 1 million years
Twenty-seven standardized bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by a team of scientists from the CNRS and l'Université de ...