Oldest Known Bone Tools Challenge Our Understanding of Human Evolution
The discovery of 1.5-million-year-old bone tools in Tanzania suggests early human ancestors had advanced cognitive abilities ...
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Researchers Unearth Oldest Known Human Facial Bones Ever Found in Western Europe
The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 ...
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Archaeologists uncovered a cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools. They’re trying to determine who made them
A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...
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Human Ancestors Were Making Bone Tools One Million Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
Human ancestors’ ability to use stone-shaping techniques on bone represents “a level of complex cognition that we haven’t seen elsewhere for another million years.” Moving forward ...
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Human ancestors made the oldest known bone tools 1.5 million years ago
Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say. Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil ...
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Trove of Ancient Axes Shows Early Humans Made Tools From Bones
Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years ... to investigate the early stages of human tool-making. Before 1.8 million ...