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

Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment 60,000 to ...

Before hominins intentionally chipped stone to make tools, they likely used sharp rocks already shaped by natural forces.

The researchers suggested that only after using naturally sharp stones for cutting did ancient humans faced selective ...

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.

Around 3.3 million years ago, hominins began using flakes of stone, perhaps to cut flesh ... “We may be missing a whole world of tools made by early humans,” he said. Dr. de la Torre has ...

Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources. But how did the production of stone tools -- called 'knapping' -- start?

Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years.

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of prehistoric animal bones in Tanzania that suggests early humans figured out how to transfer tool-making techniques "from stone to bone" 1.5 million years ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared technologies and customs.

"There is no reason to produce sharp stone tools unless the need to cut is already in place." The new hypothesis proposes that for a substantial amount of time, before early humans made their own ...