A total of 27 bone tools found at Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge Technology breakthrough is earlier than previously thought Researchers suspect tool maker was species Homo erectus The 27 tools, discovered ...

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than previously thought. If confirmed, our human ancestors started shaping bones by ...

A collection of 27 1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania shows early humans had an ability to systematically make tools about a million years earlier than scientists thought. The ...

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Maybe they decided to take advantage of a hippo femur that just happened to be available at the site, or maybe they faced a temporary shortage of stone; volcanic activity in east Africa sometimes ...

This photo shows a fossil hippo skeleton and associated Oldowan artifacts at the Nyayanga site in southwestern Kenya in July 2016. (T.W. Plummer/Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project via AP) NEW ...

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(Reuters) - 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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Archaeologists in Kenya have dug up some of the oldest stone tools ever found, but who used them is a mystery. In the past, scientists assumed that our direct ancestors were the only ...