New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than previously thought. If confirmed, our human ancestors started shaping bones by ...

Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years.

The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor Homo erectus often used bones as tools. Tool use is a storied ...

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

Fossilised face fragments discovered in a cave in northern Spain have been identified as the oldest human remains ever found in Western Europe. The partial skull, nicknamed "Pink", dates between 1.1 ...

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 ...

A US team of researchers has uncovered 27 bone tools made by human ancestors about 1.5 million years ago. While older bone tools have been discovered, similar examples of bone tool kits occur ...

Human-Wildlife Interactions, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring 2021), pp. 212-227 (16 pages) Human–wildlife conflicts (HWCs) are on the increase due to shrinking space that results in increased competition for ...