Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The 480,000-year-old ...

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

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 ...

Learn about a 500,000-year old hammer made from elephant bone, used by early humans in England to sharpen stone tools. Our ancient ancestors crafted ingenious tools made not just from stone, but from ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

A fragment of elephant bone used to sharpen stone axes nearly half a million years ago has been identified as the oldest elephant bone tool ever found in Europe. The 480,000-year-old object, shaped ...