Fossils are like time capsules, offering us a rare chance to glimpse the distant past. Over the years, a number of ancient ...

Early hominids were systematically producing bone tools at least one million years sooner than archaeologists previously ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral human species of hominid called Homo habilis 1.5 million years ago. Known as ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

habilis in the region, somewhere between 1.8 and 1.5 million years ago. The team describes 27 bone tools. In a layer dated to 1.5 million years ago, the researchers uncovered a hippopotamus ...

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago.