A collection of elephant bones were excavated between 1979 and 1991 at a site in Italy known as Castel di Guido, situated near modern day Rome, and have since been re-analysed by a team from the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by about 1 ...

Made from deer ribs, they are similar to the bone lissoirs or smoothers, still used by leather workers. The implements have a polished tip that, when pushed against a hide, creates softer and more ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 27 fossilized bone tools within the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. For over a million years, early hominins had been shaping stone into tools. But evidence of ...

Tools were made from the remains of some surprising animals OUR ancient ancestors were churning out bone tools 1.5 million years ago – a million years earlier than we thought. Dozens of tools ...

20:22, Sun, Mar 9, 2025 Updated: 20:24, Sun, Mar 9, 2025 The world’s oldest human-crafted bone tools are 1.5 million years old, according to a new study. This suggests that human ancestors were more ...

Archaeologists have catalogued an unprecedented trove of prehistoric bone tools they say were created on a kind of production line some 400,000 years ago. The experts said there was evidence that ...

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 ...

One of the oldest organic tools in the world. A bone hammer used to make the fine flint bifaces from Boxgrove. The bone shows scraping marks used to prepare the bone as well as pitting left behind ...

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