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 ...

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities and systematically crafted tools from bone much earlier than previously ...

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 ...

This indicates that they could adapt the techniques they used to make stone tools to repurpose bone, a very different material. It also raises the question of why there is no record of people ...

Those layers contain simple stone tools that marked one of the earliest recorded technological transitions. Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the ...

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that ...

Most Bronze Age settlements have been documented in European ... such as wheel-thrown pottery, iron tools and new architectural traditions using stone. This mix of local and foreign practices ...

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 ...

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 ...