The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

The oldest human-crafted bone tools on record are 1.5 million years old, a finding that suggests our ancestors were much smarter than previously thought, a new study reports. The tools, made ...

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 ...