Unearthing a set of 27 bone tools at the important archaeological ... Read More: What Evidence Is There For a "Wood Age" to Rival Those of Stone, Bronze, and Iron? Fashioned from the limb bones ...

Ignacio de la Torre, co-director of the excavation and a CSIC researcher, says the bone tools are from the Acheulean period, which is known as the age of the hand axes — tear-shaped tools with a ...

Researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have identified a set of bone tools dating back 1.5 million years, revealing that the manufacture of such instruments was not a sporadic ...

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 evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than previously thought. If confirmed, our human ancestors started shaping bones ...

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 ...

Not many Bronze Age artefacts have been found to be made of this type of material, with discoveries being made across the world, from Switzerland to China. Using a precise analysis of the ...

Archaeologists have dug up a collection of mass-produced bone ... age, around 1.7 million years ago. This more complex method of toolmaking from the start of the Acheulean, known as knapping, allowed ...