Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human evolution by more than a million years, a study said Wednesday. Ancient ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

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New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than previously thought. If confirmed, our human ancestors started shaping bones by ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s ...

Bone arrow points from prehistoric Argentina are offering a rare window into how ancient communities organized work, shared ...

Early humans used animal bones to craft tools — more than a million years earlier than scientists previously thought, according to new research published this week. A group of researchers from the ...

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years old. By Carl Zimmer Humans, unlike most other species, have a knack for making tools.

The oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, a finding that suggests our ancestors were much smarter than previously thought, a new study reports. The tools, made from ...

Humans were making tools from whale bones as far back as 20,000 years ago, according to a new study. This discovery broadens our understanding of early human use of whale remains and offers valuable ...

Large projectile point made of Gray Whale bone from the Duruthy rockshelter, Landes, France, dated between 18,000 and 17,500 years ago. CREDIT: Alexandre Lefebvre. Get the Popular Science daily ...