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

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral human species of hominid called Homo habilis 1.5 million years ago. Known as ...

Explore how early humans crafted tools from bones 1.5 million years ago, showcasing their advanced planning and cognitive ...

The bone tools measure up to around 16 inches (40 centimeters), with the largest being a sharp blade made from the humerus of ...

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 bone ...

Twenty-seven standardised 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 ...

The newly discovered bone tools from Olduvai contribute to our understanding of how hominins engaged with technology to solve the problems that they faced, and how this relationship with ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...

Bone tool carved on an elephant humerus 1.5 million years ago. Credit: CSIC An archaeological discovery in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has changed our understanding of the technological evolution of ...

Before this discovery in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, in which CENIEH participated, researchers believed that hominins only ...

Twenty-seven standardized bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in ...