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

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

For a long time, tool technology was seen as a uniquely human trait, associated with the genus ‘Homo’. Now we know tools go ...

These were not just random tools made opportunistically, but show a consistent manufacturing process that must have been ...

For decades, anthropologists believed that early hominins—our distant ancestors roaming Africa over a million years ago—had a ...

Homo habilis or Paranthropus boisei. “It could have been any of these three, but it’s almost impossible to know which one,” said Pobiner.

Objects discovered in Tanzania and dated to 1.5 million years ago help to rewrite human ancestors’ use of carved bone ...

A recent discovery in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge has revealed that early humans were crafting bone tools 1.5 million years ago, ...

The tools may have been made and used by Homo erectus, Homo habilis or Paranthropus boisei. “It could have been any of these three, but it’s almost impossible to know which one,” said Pobiner.