Discovery in Tanzania Pushes Back Early Human Bone Tool Use to 1.5 Million Years Ago

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Human ancestors made ‘bone tech’ 1.5m years ago, say scientists

PARIS: Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human evolution by more than a million years, a study said on Wednesday. Ancient humans — also called hominins — such as the robust Australopithecus are known to have used fragments of bones to dig up tubers from termite mounds. Even today our closest living relative, chimpanzees, use sticks in a similar way to dig out t…

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Tools made from elephant and hippopotamus bones, found in northern Tanzania, are estimated to be 1.5 million years old.

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1.5-Million-Year-Old "Factory" for Bone Tool Production Reveals Unexpected Cognitive Leap in Early Humans

A prehistoric “factory” discovered in Tanzania could push bone tool-making back by more than a million years, indicating unexpected abstract reasoning capabilities human ancestors displayed in the remote past. According to researchers at University College London (UCL) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), about 1.5 million years ago, hominin hands fashioned the 27 ancient bone tools now preserved as fossils. The find represents the …

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Million-year-old tools made of bone raise questions about human ancestors

Archaeologists have discovered a large collection of ancient tools crafted out of hippopotamus and elephant bones, pushing back the age of bone tool kits made by humans a million years.

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Humans Have Been Producing Bone Tools For Over 1 Million Years Longer Than We Thought

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

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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 thinking and advanced craftsmanship.