Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years. In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought ...

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 ...

A US team of researchers has uncovered 27 bone tools made by human ancestors about 1.5 million years ago. While older bone tools have been discovered, similar examples of bone tool kits occur more ...

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear. The earliest signs of a regular use of bone tools hadn’t shown up in the ...

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The dig site at Castel di Guido in Italy featured numerous skeletons of straight-tusked elephants, from which many of the bone tools were produced. "Elephant bones for the Middle Pleistocene toolmaker ...

The excavation season at Direkli Cave in the Çağlayancerit district of Kahramanmaraş ended with the recovery of two bone ...