The bone tools were created the same way tools were made from stone.

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

Responding officers confirmed the bones appeared to be human remains, Roxeanne Vainuku, the department's deputy director of communication, tells PEOPLE. She adds that the medical examiner's office ...

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.

In 1998, a group of students found the Lapedo child after the group stumbled upon human hand bones at a rock shelter called Lagar Velho. In the weeks after, excavations revealed a full juvenile ...

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

"The human hand isn't completely rigid or purely soft—it's a hybrid system, with bones, soft joints, and tissue working together. That's what we want our prosthetic hand to achieve. This is new ...

The paper, published in Nature, describes a collection of 27 now-fossilised bones that had been shaped into hand tools 1.5 million years ago by human ancestors. It's the earliest substantial ...

"The human hand isn't completely rigid or purely soft -- it's a hybrid system, with bones, soft joints, and tissue working together. That's what we want our prosthetic hand to achieve. This is new ...