The mortar, pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements ...

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.

Tool use is a storied tradition among hominins. Members of the genus Australopithecus — which includes the famed fossil Lucy — were making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago.

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...

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 ...

Over a million years ago, ancient human ancestors sat ... to be able to spot the slight markings on stone which designate it as a hand axe or other tool don't usually look at bones.