The team describes 27 bone tools. In a layer dated to 1.5 million years ago, the researchers uncovered a hippopotamus carcass surrounded by stone and bone tools. The bone implements were crafted ...

Around 3.3 million years ago, hominins began using flakes of stone, perhaps to cut flesh from carcasses or chop plants. And by 1.5 million years ago, they were using more sophisticated tools made ...

Archaeologists found fossilised bones in Tanzania that suggest they began making them 1,5 million years ago.