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

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

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

Writing goes back about 5,000 years, but the spoken words is over a million years old. Psychology, biology and archaeology ...

He named this species Homo habilis, or the “handy/able man”, due to its presumed ability to make tools. This assessment was based on the discovery of certain cranial bones which indicated a large ...

Early humans began crafting stone tools more than 3 million years ago by chipping off flakes to form shapes and sharp edges in a process known as knapping. There was previously no evidence that our ...

El hallazgo, realizado en un yacimiento de la Garganta de Olduvai (Tanzania, África oriental), demuestra que el homo erectus tallaba hachas de hueso de manera sistemática un millón de años antes que ...

Archaeologists found fossilised bones in Tanzania that suggest they began making them 1,5 million years ago.

Now, researchers have uncovered a substantial cache of prehistoric bone tools in the same region dating back 1.5 million years. It's the oldest collection of mass-produced bone tools yet known, ...

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

Los H. habilis -los primeros representantes del género Homo- vivieron en África hace entre 2,5 y 1,5 millones de años y podían fabricar sencillas y pequeñas lascas (cuchillos) de piedra con ...