Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools.

Scientists believe that recent analysis of a find from the 1970's can offer us insights into the lives of ancient humans.

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

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

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 Wednesday. Ancient ...

Discovered during excavations at Boxgrove in West Sussex, the ancient hammer is among the oldest elephant bone tools ever ...

‘Remarkable’ prehistoric elephant bone tool is oldest in Europe, archaeologists reveal - Archaeologists said the 500,000-year ...

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 Tanzania’s ...

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than previously thought. If confirmed, our human ancestors started shaping bones by ...

Whale bones retrieved from prehistoric shores are shedding light on how humans lived—and hunted—along Europe's vanished coastlines. Reading time 2 minutes Perhaps the greatest challenge to studying ...

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