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

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

The oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, a finding that suggests our ancestors were much smarter than previously thought, a new study reports. The tools, made from ...

Archaeologists have dug up a collection of mass-produced bone tools, the earliest ever discovered, suggesting that hominins systematically made tools out of bone around 1 million years earlier than ...

The handcrafted tools found in Tanzania were made 1.5 million years ago and were fashioned primarily from the bones of ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

and he says this dates the production of bone tools a million years earlier than scientists thought. SHAPIRO: Wow, so there ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were ... of potential artifacts,” Ignacio de la Torre, lead author and paleolithic archaeologist at the Centre for Human and Social Sciences ...

Ignacio de la Torre, co-director of the excavation and a CSIC researcher, says the bone tools are from the Acheulean period, which is known as the age of the hand axes — tear-shaped tools with a ...