A fragment of elephant bone used to sharpen stone axes nearly half a million years ago has been identified as the oldest ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient human ancestors 1.5 million years ago, making them the oldest known bone tools by about 1 ...

The dig site at Castel di Guido in Italy featured numerous skeletons of straight-tusked elephants, from which many of the bone tools were produced. "Elephant bones for the Middle Pleistocene toolmaker ...

Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania boasts sediment layers dating back to about 1.8 million years ago. Those layers contain simple stone tools that marked one of the earliest recorded technological ...

Figure 23 depicts an engraving awl, which can be used to drill holes in wood, and incising tools, which are used for relief carving. Because bone and ivory are not always preserved in sites, they are ...