Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

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

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral ...

For a long time, tool technology was seen as a uniquely human trait, associated with the genus ‘Homo’. Now we know tools go ...

These were not just random tools made opportunistically, but show a consistent manufacturing process that must have been ...

The tools may have been made and used by Homo erectus, Homo habilis or Paranthropus boisei. “It could have been any of these ...

The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor ...

A recent discovery in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge has revealed that early humans were crafting bone tools 1.5 million years ago, ...

The tools may have been made and used by Homo erectus, Homo habilis or Paranthropus boisei. “It could have been any of these three, but it’s almost impossible to know which one,” said Pobiner.

Homo habilis or Paranthropus boisei. “It could have been any of these three, but it’s almost impossible to know which one,” said Pobiner.