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

The development of tool technology is considered a pivotal step in human evolution. Deliberately shaped stones are thought to have emerged in cultures more ancient than our own genus Homo to strip ...

Even older artifacts recovered at Olduvai Gorge come from a bone tool kit, the scientists say. Implements of varying sizes and shapes were identified as pieces of leg bones, mostly from elephants ...

The study is one of the few so far to combine use-wear, archaeozoology and paleoproteomics in archaeological material and the first to do so in bone artifacts from the ancient Neolithic.

Archaeologists have discovered a collection of prehistoric animal bones in Tanzania that suggests early humans figured out how to transfer tool-making techniques "from stone to bone" 1.5 million years ...

all in the U.S., has used radiocarbon dating of bone and other artifacts found at various sites across North America to learn ...