Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years. In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought ...

Early Pyrenean Neolithic groups applied species selection strategies to produce bone artifacts, reveals study. Story by Science X staff • 11mo.

This image shows artifacts made of bony material from a giant sloth discovered at a rock shelter in Brazil and excavated from archaeological layers dated to 25,000 to 27,000 years ago.

Who wore this pendant 20,000 years ago? DNA can now tell us. A breakthrough technique extracts human DNA from bone artifacts, offering scientists an unrivaled look at the individual owners or ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest known multifunctional tool made from cave lion bone, shedding new light on Neanderthal ingenuity. The ancient utensil dates back to the end of the Saalian ...

Since Clovis points and other Paleo-American artifacts are rare, I relied heavily on local museums, private collectors, collections housed at state universities, and even military installations to ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been crafting tools from whale bones since more than 20,000 years ago ...

In 1983, archaeologists exploring South Africa's Kruger Cave found a 7,000-year-old antelope femur which then sat in storage at the University of Witwatersrand for nearly 40 years. It wasn't until ...

Of these 103 bone tools, 83 are classified as “retouchers”, meaning they display only a small amount of modification and are therefore ambiguous in terms of their function.

Known as the Oldowan people, the culture responsible for the bone artifacts was already known for their use of stone tools dating back to 2.5 million years ago.

The artifacts examined in this study pushed back the oldest-known use of whale bones for toolmaking by 1,000 to 2,000 years. The objects were previously discovered at the various sites and kept in ...