Bone fragments from a cave in northern Spain suggest there were multiple hominin species living in western Europe around a ...

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 ...

The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor Homo erectus often used bones as tools. Tool use is a storied ...

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say. Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil ...

Sima de los Huesos, or the "Pit of Bones," is a significant archaeological site located in the Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain, near the town of Ibeas de Juarros, in the Burgos Province.

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Ancient Humans Made Tools From Animal Bones 1.5 Million Years Ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered ...

Scientists have unearthed the remains of five enormous 25,000-year-old woolly mammoths in Austria — and they appear to have been hunted and butchered by ancient humans. The mammoths were ...

Over a million years ago, ancient human ancestors sat down to shave flakes off bones, producing a tool with a carefully created sharp edge. According to Jackson Njau, an archaeologist at ...

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years ... to investigate the early stages of human tool-making. Before 1.8 million ...

Ancient humans were regularly making tools out of animal bones 1.5 million years ago – more than a million years earlier than previously thought. This indicates that they could adapt the ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient ... species of human ancestors lived ...