Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania boasts sediment layers dating back to about 1.8 million years ago. Those layers contain simple stone tools that marked one of the earliest recorded technological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 27 fossilized bone tools within the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. For over a million ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest known bone tools, pushing back evidence of their use by around a million years.

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Throughout history, humans have had a complex relationship with lions, both reverencing and fearing them. Interactions between Neanderthals and cave lions (Panthera spelaea) remain poorly documented ...

A closeup of the elephant bone tool’s striking surface, showing the marks of it being struck against flint tools. A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a ...

Hunter-gatherers in England used a tool fashioned from an elephant bone to sharpen their butchery utensils almost half a million years ago. We don’t know which human species used this proboscidean ...

Archaeologists have unlocked the secrets of a "remarkable" 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer which they say is the oldest of its kind in Europe. The 11-centimetre-long fragment was first uncovered ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...