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.

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?

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

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

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.

Stone tool analysis of sites in Southeast Asia provided evidence that the area was a technological leader in seafaring. Archaeology supports that, 40,000 years ago, the people living in Southeast ...

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 ...

Blade cores provided a portable source of stone or obsidian for manufacturing different kinds of tools by flaking off pieces from the core. The basis of many Upper Paleolithic tool forms from both ...

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

The fragments uncovered were clearly produced by human hands using the distinctive techniques of the Clovis people.

This 230,000 year old stone tool was made by an early Neanderthal.This handaxe is one of a thousand stone tools found with early Neanderthal remains in excavations at Pontnewydd Cave, Denbighshire.