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480,000-year-old ax sharpener is the oldest known elephant bone tool ever discovered in Europe
The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...
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Early humans relied on simple stone tools for 300,000 years in a changing east African landscape
Our prehistoric human ancestors relied on deliberately modified and sharpened stone tools as early as 3.3 million years ago.
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500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer discovered in England reveals early human tool skills
A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...
Recent discoveries have suggested that tool-making, an indicator of intelligence, was practiced by pre-human species millions of years prior to the evolution of Homo sapiens. This revelation has the ...
The Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya, in July 2025. Fossils and Oldowan tools have been excavated from the tan and reddish-brown sediments, which date to more than 2.6 million years old. T. W.
A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...
Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. Not only did these early people ...
Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social ...
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