Humans living about 400,000 years ago produced an unprecedented diversity of elephant bone tools, including pointed tools for carving meat and wedge-shaped tools for cracking open large femurs and ...

Figure 24. A carving knife, carved by Henry Hunt. Figure 25. A bone chisel. Figure 23 depicts an engraving awl, which can be used to drill holes in wood, and incising tools, which are used for relief ...

Ancient humans could do some impressive things with elephant bones. In a new study, University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist Paola Villa and her colleagues surveyed tools excavated from a site in ...

A tiny 13,300-year-old bone carving of bird unearthed at a rubbish tip has been hailed as 'China's oldest work of art' by an international team of scientists.

Unknown ancient humans made elephant bone tools to carve meat 400,000 years ago in a way not thought to be possible until 100,000 years later, archaeologists say Researchers analysed elephant ...

Using large and small tools, ranging from saws and drill presses to small buffers held between the fingers, the Hoffs carve 320 designs from the 480 bones they use each year. They also take ...

A fossilized leg bone bearing cut marks made by stone tools might be the earliest evidence that ancient humans butchered and ate each other’s flesh. The 1.45-million-year-old hominin bone ...

Hand-Carved, 400,000-Year-Old Bone Tool Used for Smoothing Leather Found in Italy Found near Rome, the utensil is 100,000 years older than previous finds of this kind David Kindy - Correspondent ...

Ahmed, who has given shape to thousands of pieces of bone art in his 40-year-old career, designs and carves these tools when he is out of work. “The City of Nawabs leads in the bone craft.