Tanzania: 1.5 Million-Year-Old Bone Tools Discovered in Tanzania Rewrite the History of Human Evolution

Evidence that humans evolved from a knuckle-walking ancestor

Bipedalism has traditionally been regarded as the fundamental adaptation that sets hominids apart from other primates. Fossil evidence demonstrates that by 4.1 million years ago1, and perhaps earlier2, hominids exhibited adaptations to bipedal walking. At present, however, the fossil record offers little information about the origin of bipedalism, and despite nearly a century of research on existing fossils and comparative anatomy, there is stil…

1.5 million-year-old bone tools discovered in Africa rewrite the history of human evolution

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence of bone tool making was from sites in Europe, dated to 400,000 years ago. But archaeologists have now found and dated bone tools in Tanzania that are a million years older. The tools are made from the bones of large animals like hippos and elephants,…

Tanzania: 1.5 Million-Year-Old Bone Tools Discovered in Tanzania Rewrite the History of Human Evolution

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence of bone tool making was from sites in Europe, dated to 400,000 years ago. But archaeologists have now found and dated bone tools in Tanzania that are a million years older.

1.5 million-year-old bone tools discovered in Tanzania rewrite the history of human evolution

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence of bone tool making was from sites in Europe, dated to 400,000 years ago. But archaeologists have now found and dated bone tools in Tanzania that are a million years older. The tools are made from the bones of large animals like hippos and elephants,…

More than 40,000 years ago, modern people and Neanderthals lived side by side in Europe. DNA analyses now allow researchers to investigate bone for related compounds.A study of the findings in the Thuringian Ranis and the Czech Zlatý kůň has now provided astonishing results. by DAVID NEUHÄUSER Approximately 45,000 to 49,000 years ago, [...] The article The traces of the first modern people appeared first on wissenschaft.de.

Abstract Reasoning Earlier than Thought?

Researchers say, bone tools were being mass produced 1.5 million years ago in the in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Source