Olduvai Gorge yielded ancient stone tools—and the bones of their makers. ... meaning “handy man,” because they believed this species was the maker of the stone tools discovered years earlier.

Indeed, the reason for that first trip to Olduvai Gorge was to test the idea that a modern-looking skeleton, ... Leakey brashly changed the definition of Homo so that pre-Zinj would qualify.

A total of 27 bone tools found at Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge. ... Hippos were common in the area but elephants were not, meaning their bones were probably carried to Olduvai Gorge from elsewhere, ...

In 1931, at the age of 28, Louis Leakey made his first trip to Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania. His goal: to prove that Africa – specifically East Africa, where he had been born and grown ...

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say. Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil ...

Twenty-seven standardized bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by a team of scientists from the CNRS and l'Université de ...

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.

While the bone tool kits found later in Europe, dated to 400,000 years ago, are much more refined, the Olduvai Gorge tools were more effective for heavy-duty tasks, Njau said.

An impressively documented leading article in the British Medical Journal of June 13, 1964, discusses recent fossil discoveries by Dr. L. S. B. Leakey in Tanganyika. The bones constituting the find ...

In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought to have been made and used by an ancestral human species of hominid called Homo habilis 1.5 million years ago.

Olduvai Gorge yielded ancient stone tools—and the bones of their makers. ... meaning “handy man,” because they believed this species was the maker of the stone tools discovered years earlier.