Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

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Archaeologists discovered 27 bone tools dating back 1.5 million years at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of systematic bone tool production by over a million years. Early humans ...

The world’s oldest human-crafted bone tools are 1.5 million years old, according to a new study. This suggests that human ancestors were more intelligent than previously believed. The ancient ...

For decades, scientists believed that early humans started working with bone tools between 250,000 and 500,000 years ago. That timeline has now been thrown out the window. The 2018 excavation at ...

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 ...