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

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

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

Their discovery, published today in Nature, pushes back the age of a large bone ... stone which designate it as a hand axe or other tool don't usually look at bones. But with the discovery of ...

Researchers discovered 27 now-fossilized bones that were shaped into hand tools an estimated 1.5 ... used on stone tools from the Oldowan age carried over into a time the human ancestors were ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone ... The hand ax emerged during a shift in early human innovation about 1.7 million years ago in a time called the Acheulean age that lasted ...

Ignacio de la Torre, co-director of the excavation and a CSIC researcher, says the bone tools are from the Acheulean period, which is known as the age of the hand axes — tear-shaped tools with a ...