The handcrafted tools found in Tanzania were made 1.5 million years ago and were fashioned primarily from the bones of ...

Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago ... that first cut stones into hand axes, also called bifaces. This invention represented a major advance, making it possible for ...

Adding to the plethora of intelligent crafting was a collection of hand axes, according to the study ... than 1.2 million years ago, the use of stone tools was a window into the evolution of ...

Postgraduate students from the History Department of Arignar Anna Government Arts College, Villupuram, have discovered ...

But after that point, they crafted a diverse array of stone tools. One type, known as a hand ax, is a large, teardrop-shaped stone with a double-sided edge. Hominins also made cleavers and ...

The bone tools measure up to around 16 inches (40 centimeters), with the largest being a sharp blade made from the humerus of ...

The oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, a finding that suggests our ancestors were much smarter than previously thought, a new study reports. The tools, made from ...

Several other bone tools resemble pear-shaped stone hand axes. Archaeologists consider stone hand axes the main innovation of the Acheulean industry, a tool tradition that emerged roughly 1.7 ...

Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the same region dating back 1.5 million years. It's the oldest collection of mass-produced bone tools yet known, ...