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Our ancestors were making bone tools a million years earlier than thought
She was not involved in the study. "Bone tools are not very common because they decompose. So, there is a chance that they ...
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Humans Have Been Producing Bone Tools For Over 1 Million Years Longer Than We Thought
These were not just random tools made opportunistically, but show a consistent manufacturing process that must have been ...
‘Toolbox’ find in Tanzania pushes back bone tool use by 1 million years
The bone tools measure up to around 16 inches (40 centimeters), with the largest being a sharp blade made from the humerus of an elephant.
Tools made from animal bones show ingenuity of human ancestors
An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and ...
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Scientists date remains of an ancient child that resembles both humans and Neanderthals
and researchers reported Friday in the journal Science Advances that they were able to date the skeleton by measuring part of ...
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Becoming a Fossil:
Land animals and plants usually decomposed or were eaten, and mainly the hard parts -- teeth, bones, shells, or wood -- were preserved. Fossils can be formed in several ways. Buried bone and shell ...