The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

In a nutshell Archaeologists discovered 27 bone tools dating back 1.5 million years at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of systematic bone tool production by over a million years.

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...

OUR ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and hippos reveals what scientists are calling a technological breakthrough for ...

The resulting tools ranged from 20 to 40 centimeters ... "The hypothesis of the study is that the bone-cutting at Olduvai is an original invention, during a moment of transition to bifaces ...

Washington — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million ... The well-preserved bone tools, measuring up to around 16 inches (40 centimeters), were likely ...

Bone tools found in Olduvai, photographed in the Pleistocene Archaeology ... possibly because the quartz available at the site was not well-suited to the difficult job of cutting up big animals. It ...

perhaps to cut flesh from carcasses or chop plants. And by 1.5 million years ago, they were using more sophisticated tools made of bone, according to a new study published in Nature, which dates ...