Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and ...

The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.

Open the Youtube video Experts found a dirt-covered tube that was carved out of bone and had a perforated, threaded screw cap. It was only identified later to be a vaginal syringe used for douching.

The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...

The collection’s earlier brushes, from the nineteenth century, are made of carved bone or ivory, and often have large heads inset with bristles made of animal hair, usually pig bristles. Many of these ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.