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In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds a bone tool found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, at the CSIC-Pleistocene Archaeology Lab in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A collection of 27 1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania shows early humans had an ...

Twenty-seven standardized bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by a team of scientists from the CNRS and l'Université de ...

Archaeologists find evidence of the first culture in China to carve human skulls and bones into tools roughly 5,000 years ago ...

New evidence shows that Neandertal people selected rib bones from specific animals to make these tools for working animal hides into leather. (Naomi Martisius) Evidence continues to mount that the ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have pinpointed the oldest known evidence of humans making tools from whale bone. The bones, fashioned into narrow projectiles for hunting, had been uncovered in excavations ...

(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 by ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...