Archaeologists outside of Rome uncover ancient heavy-duty tools made from elephant bones over 400,000 years ago.

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

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Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the ...

During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...

Volcanic ash deposits above and below the bones at Casal Lumbroso date the carcass to around 404,000 years ago, during a warm ...

New Italian site finds show early humans ~400,000 years ago skillfully used elephant bones to make tools, not just for food.