Archaeologists discovered a pile of 15 human skulls in a Neolithic ... Bioarchaeologist Michael Thompson, the study’s lead ...

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Archaeologists have discovered a pile of 15 human skulls in a Neolithic ... 5 people spanning 2,500 years "We certainly think that human bone had a specific kind of meaning, and perhaps was ...

The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old bone axe from Ethiopia — that suggest the human ancestor Homo erectus often used bones as tools. Tool use is a storied ...

As the human line evolved, so did the sophistication of the tools we carved out of bone. For example, the first needles with eyes were made from bone in China and Siberia, only arriving in Europe ...

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out ... represent the oldest known evidence of systematic bone tool production by hominids, according to archaeologist Ignacio de la Torre of ...

While early human ancestors started making stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, bone tools took much longer to appear. The earliest signs of a regular use of bone tools hadn’t shown up in ...

Was the bone deposit Roman or British? It’s difficult to say exactly who was doing the sacrificing, if any occurred. Officially, Romans disapproved of human sacrifice, and the practice would ...

Police were called to the first block of Cordele Road in the Red Mill Farms neighborhood about 4:30 p.m. Sunday for reports of a "possible human bone," the agency said. Responding detectives also ...

And by 1.5 million years ago, they were using more sophisticated tools made of bone, according to a new ... to investigate the early stages of human tool-making. Before 1.8 million years ago ...

A US team of researchers has uncovered 27 bone tools made by human ancestors about 1.5 million years ago. While older bone tools have been discovered, similar examples of bone tool kits occur ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought ...