Tiny detail on animal bone changes what we know about our human ancestors - The first evidence that hominins butchered several animals at the site in Romania at least 1.95 million years ago has ...

However, a 2018 excavation in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge turned up a cache of animal bone tools that have now been determined to be 1.5 million years old, pushing back the hominin tool technology ...

The bones show minimal signs of erosion, trampling or gnawing by other animals — ruling out the possibility that natural causes resulted in the tool shapes, she added. The bone tools date from more ...

A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

Animal bone markings show evidence that 'Lucy' species used stone tools, ate meat Discovery pushes stone-tool use by early humans back 800,000 years ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years.

“Animal bones may not be what you come to Katmai to see, but they are important for archeologists who use these bones to reconstruct what has been traditionally hunted in the area,” the park said.

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 ...