Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or bowhead whale, dated to 17,300-16,700 years before present, curated at the ...

Long before ships sailed the oceans or factories hunted whales for oil, humans living near the Bay of Biscay were already ...

I am going to tell you all about the latest discovery from France & Spain, where researchers came across the oldest currently ...

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.

The tools, made from hippo and elephant leg bones, were discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and are a million years older than any previously found shaped bone tools.

Stone tools from this period are thought to have been created by Homo erectus, an extinct species that resembled modern humans, who lived 1.89 million to 110,000 years ago.. The team began ...

While the bone tool kits found later in Europe, dated to 400,000 years ago, are much more refined, the Olduvai Gorge tools were more effective for heavy-duty tasks, Njau said.

In total, Dr. de la Torre and his colleagues found 27 bone tools, some as long as 15 inches. They were not rarities that hominins created once every 100,000 years: The scientists found all the ...

It’s not just the age of the bone tools that is striking to researchers, but their overall historical context. Study authors believe that integrating the material into ancient hominin toolkits ...

Bone tools shaped by knapping, however, were much rarer until about 500,000 years ago, according to Peters and her fellow authors, making it challenging to identify consistent behaviors in the ...

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.

(CNN) — 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 ...