Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Handaxe from the Boxgrove paleosol horizon (locality Q2/GTP 17). (CREDIT: Science Advances) The earliest hominins in Europe shared ...

Tool use isn't unique to humans. Chimpanzees use sticks as tools. Dolphins, crows, and elephants are known for their tool-use abilities, too. Now a report in Current Biology on November 8, 2024, ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

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A closeup of the elephant bone tool’s striking surface, showing the marks of it being struck against flint tools. A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a ...

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A clever elephant has cleaned up by learning how to use a hose as a shower. Mary, an Asian elephant, was caught on camera showering at Berlin Zoo in Germany. And researchers also have evidence of ...

One of the world’s oldest tools made from elephant bone has been discovered in the UK. The extraordinary hammer offers new insight into the lives of ancient humans living in southern England 480,000 ...

Archaeologists have confirmed a fragment of elephant bone unearthed in West Sussex as one of the world's oldest tools fashioned from such material. The discovery, made decades ago at Boxgrove, near ...

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A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analyzed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural ...