The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

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PRESENTER:'Our skeleton has over 200 bones from the largest - our leg bone, or our femur, to the smallest - the bones in our ears. PRESENTER:'Bones are made of calcium and other minerals.

The leg bones of this species are rarely found, so the new finds also provide clues about how P. robustus walked. The researchers described their findings in the April issue of the Journal of ...