Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Handaxe from the Boxgrove paleosol horizon (locality Q2/GTP 17). (CREDIT: Science Advances) The earliest hominins in Europe shared ...

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A closeup of the elephant bone tool’s striking surface, showing the marks of it being struck against flint tools. A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 11-centimetre-long fragment was first uncovered at a dig in Boxgrove, near Chichester in West Sussex, in the 1990s, but its ...

Archaeologists have discovered the earliest known bone tools, pushing back evidence of their use by around a million years. The find suggests early humans had more advanced tool-making skills than ...

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ever to exist on Earth. Elephants weighed around ten thousand kilograms ...