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 ...

A groundbreaking new study has shattered previous conceptions about Paleolithic humans, proving they exploited marine ...

Whale bone tools at the sites that the team studied ... a nutritious addition to Stone Age diets, the investigators say. Bone fragments at that site came from at least two whales, one dating ...

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, ...

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 ...

Large projectile point made of Gray Whale bone from the Duruthy rockshelter, Landes, France, dated between 18,000 and 17,500 years ago.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...