Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical thinking and advanced craftsmanship.

Some propose they descended from Homo erectus, an early human ancestor known ... more primitive hominin such as Homo habilis or Australopithecus afarensis. “It’s clear from the small size ...

habilis had a brain that was larger than the largest Autralopithecus brain, but smaller than the Homo erectus brain. The first example of Homo erectus, known as "Java Man," was discovered in ...

Some researchers even suggest that Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis could be subspecies of Homo erectus, although this theory remains controversial. These skulls continue to be an important piece ...

Homo habilis was only able to break out large flakes from a cobble; its voluntary control of its mental template was quite crude. Homo erectus, on the other hand, was able to break off much ...

This discovery marks the first Hobbit bone beyond the cranium identified at Mata Menge. Based on the bone's size, researchers ...

The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor Homo erectus often ... replaced H. habilis in the region, somewhere ...

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...