The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical thinking and advanced craftsmanship.

Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 27 fossilized bone tools within the Olduvai ... made from the limb bones of 1.5-million-year-old elephants and hippos. What’s truly remarkable ...

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 ...

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 ...

The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...

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 oldest known bone tools were found at European sites believed to be 250,000 to 500,000 years old. The 27 fragments of limb bones, most from hippopotamuses and elephants, show evidence of ...