Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...
Archaeologists have long believed that humans didn’t start crafting tools from bone until between 250,000 and 500,000 years ago. However, a 2018 excavation in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge turned ...
The development of tool technology is considered a pivotal step in human evolution. Deliberately shaped stones are thought to have emerged in cultures more ancient than our own genus Homo to strip ...
Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...
The bone tools, which all appear to have been systematically produced in the same style as one another, were found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge ... ancestors such as Homo habilis, Homo erectus ...
Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient human fossils have been discovered, helping scientists piece together the ...