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 ...

In a nutshell 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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania ... The site is also where archaeologists have previously unearthed artifacts related to some of the first stone ...

There is a display showing how the points were made going from a mammoth bone through five more ... pierce the hide of a mastodon. Artifacts from the Paleo Period Photo: Kathleen Walls The next ...

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 ...

These are bones and artifacts from the site. This bone is food remains and includes a piece of moa bone at the bottom left. The top left is part of a dog jaw Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!