Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

Discovered in southern England in the mid-1990s, the artifact may have been made by Neanderthals or Homo heidelbergensis, according to a new study ...

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were ...

Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived ...

A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a million years ago, has been uncovered in southern England and analysed by archaeologists from UCL and the Natural ...

Queen’s University is getting ready to host more than 60 hands-on activities, talks and events during the Northern Ireland ...

A fragment of elephant bone used to sharpen stone axes nearly half a million years ago has been identified as the oldest elephant bone tool ever found in Europe. The 480,000-year-old object, shaped ...

Finds from Greece and Britain suggest early hominins were shaping wood and bone with far more intention and ingenuity than ...

The "very rare" find provides an extraordinary glimpse into the ingenuity of early human relatives who lived around half a million years ago.

This Paleolithic hammer found in the village of Boxgrove is the oldest tool made of elephant bone that's ever been unearthed ...

This find marks the earliest known instance of elephant bone being utilized as a raw material in Europe, as well as the ...

Buried for 500,000 years, this enigmatic object is forcing researchers to rethink early human capabilities.