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 ...

Early humans in England used elephant bone to sharpen stone tools, revealing advanced planning, material knowledge, and ...

Tool use isn't unique to humans. Chimpanzees use sticks as tools. Dolphins, crows, and elephants are known for their tool-use abilities, too. Now a report in Current Biology on November 8, 2024, ...

This Paleolithic hammer found in the village of Boxgrove is the oldest tool made of elephant bone that's ever been unearthed in Europe.

One of the world’s oldest tools made from elephant bone has been discovered in the UK. The extraordinary hammer offers new insight into the lives of ancient humans living in southern England 480,000 ...

Archaeologists have confirmed a fragment of elephant bone unearthed in West Sussex as one of the world's oldest tools fashioned from such material. The discovery, made decades ago at Boxgrove, near ...

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 ...