Archaeologists studying a nearly 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer have determined the ancient tool was made by ...

A palm-sized fragment of elephant bone, shaped and used as a precision tool almost half a million years ago, has been identified as the oldest known elephant-bone implement in Europe. Although the ...

Microscopic feathers provide clearest evidence yet of ceremonial clothing used in shamanic burial rituals in prehistoric ...

Archaeologists have confirmed a fragment of elephant bone unearthed in West Sussex as one of the world's oldest tools ...