US EditionDiscovery in Tanzania Pushes Back Early Human Bone Tool Use to 1.5 Million Years Ago
- Early humans used animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago, according to researchers.
- The discovery includes 27 carved bones found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge.
- William Harcourt-Smith stated that this discovery shows ancient humans had more complex toolkits than previously thought.
- M�rian Pacheco emphasized that the consistent pattern of alteration indicates early humans deliberately chose and carved these bones.
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The Times of Northwest Indiana
Dispatch ArgusStudy dates ancient human bone tools
WASHINGTON — Early humans regularly used animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago.
Finds on the Kalambo River, which forms a border between Zambia and Tanzania, prove that already ancestors of our species humans (Homo sapiens) could work on wood and use it for constructions. Traces of pre-humans exist not only in Africa, but also in Europe. The history of humans and human-likes who use tools to produce objects is millions of years old. In 2023, researchers published in the journal Nature a find that they made on the Kalambo Ri…
Bone Tool Production Revealed in Olduvai Gorge - Archaeology Magazine
Bone tool carved from an elephant humerus OLDUVAI GORGE, TANZANIA—According to a statement released by University College London, a collection of 27 fossilized bone artifacts made by hominins in Olduvai Gorge 1.5 million years ago represents the oldest known systematic production of bone tools. The objects, which were fashioned out of the limbs of large mammals such as hippos and elephants, may have been used to process animal carcasses into foo…
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