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 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 ...

Six bone tools featured a carved notch on one end, which perhaps served as a grip, and a sharp point at the other end. Several other bone tools resemble pear-shaped stone hand axes. We summarize ...