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

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

Archaeologists discovered 27 bone tools dating back 1.5 million years at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of systematic bone tool production by over a million years. Early humans ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

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

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought, finds a new ...

A roughly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer has been discovered in Boxgrove, England. This find ...