Kanzi the bonobo, who learned how to communicate with humans using symbols, has died at the age of 44. Raised and kept in ...

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...

The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

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 study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of the United States, reveals that yellow-breasted capuchin monkeys in Brazil inadvertently produce sharp stone ...

The very earliest stone tools come from the "Oldowan" age which stretched from about 2.7 million years ago to 1.5 million years ago. It employs a simple method for making stone tools, by chipping ...

As for the Upper Middle and Late Stone Age, the exhibit includes advanced tools such as scrapers and biface flakes, reflecting significant technological improvements and specialized applications ...