The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years. When ...

In this photo provided by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), researcher Ignacio de la Torre holds a bone tool found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge, at the CSIC-Pleistocene Archaeology Lab in ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in ...

The bones were discovered at two caves in the 1990s, but scientists recently revisited them to take a closer look at the cut marks. Anaëlle Jallon Neanderthals living at caves less than 45 miles apart ...

Archaeologists identified the bones of fur-bearing animals used as sewing needles in early North American societies. University of Wyoming The idea behind using every part of an animal might have ...

WASHINGTON — Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in ...