A study of prehistoric bone tools from the Bay of Biscay revealed that they were 20,000 years old, the oldest known example ...

New research reveals that Stone Age humans were widely using whale ... Using cutting-edge protein analysis, researchers identified whale bone tools and fragments from 26 archaeological sites ...

Ancient scavengers of the beached beasts turned their bones into implements that spread across a large area, researchers say.

Fragment of projectile point from the cave site of Isturitz (Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France), made of bone from right whale or ...

says the bone tools are from the Acheulean period, which is known as the age of the hand axes — tear-shaped tools with a sharp point made from stone. "Now, we have a human species here that is ...

While hominins used simple methods to chip a few flakes off of stones at the start of the Oldowan age ... standardized tools from stone. But, apparently, it also allowed them to mass-produce sharp, ...

Meanwhile, those found in paleoanthropological pre-Middle Stone Age African contexts ... pointed and notched bone tools.” It’s not just the age of the bone tools that is striking to ...

The Stone Age timeline encompasses a huge chunk ... A diver finds a mastodon radius bone at the Aucilla River site. Stone tools and bones with cut marks there date to 14,500 years ago, 1500 ...

We were excited to find these bone tools from such an early ... The very earliest stone tools come from the "Oldowan" age which stretched from about 2.7 million years ago to 1.5 million years ...

The bone tools, which all appear to have been ... During the Oldowan age, a time period named for stone artifacts found in the gorge, ancient humans used tools created by striking one rock against ...

SHAPIRO: Wow, so there might be a bone age in addition to a Stone Age. KWONG: Correct. SHAPIRO: Wow. CARLSON: Yeah. SHAPIRO: Do the tools actually teach us anything about how smart these ancient ...