Objects discovered in Tanzania and dated to 1.5 million years ago help to rewrite human ancestors’ use of carved bone ...

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

and researchers have uncovered the remains of ancient human ancestors such as Homo habilis, Homo erectus and prehistoric Homo sapiens, or modern humans, he said. The archaeological record also ...

The tools may have been made and used by Homo erectus, Homo habilis or Paranthropus boisei. “It could have been any of these three, but it’s almost impossible to know which one,” said Pobiner.