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 ...

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.

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 ...