{"id":10639,"date":"2025-03-05T16:42:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trove-of-ancient-axes-shows-early-humans-made-tools-from-bones\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T16:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T16:42:25","slug":"trove-of-ancient-axes-shows-early-humans-made-tools-from-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trove-of-ancient-axes-shows-early-humans-made-tools-from-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Trove of Ancient Axes Shows Early Humans Made Tools From Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Humans, unlike most other species, have a knack for making tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Six million years ago, our apelike ancestors probably smashed nuts with rocks or caught termites with sticks. Around <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/05\/21\/science\/stone-tools-from-kenya-are-oldest-yet-discovered.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">3.3 million years ago<\/a>, hominins began using flakes of stone, perhaps to cut flesh from carcasses or chop plants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And by 1.5 million years ago, they were using more sophisticated tools made of bone, according to a new <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08652-5\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> published in Nature, which dates the systematic use of bone tools to a million years earlier than archaeologists had previously thought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ignacio de la Torre, an archaeologist at the Spanish National Research Council who led the research, said the discovery made him wonder what is left to be discovered. \u201cWe may be missing a whole world of tools made by early humans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. de la Torre has spent years exploring Tanzania, in East Africa, to investigate the early stages of human tool-making. Before 1.8 million years ago, hominins simply knocked one rock against another to split off a sharp-edged flake. But after that point, they crafted a diverse array of stone tools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One type, known as a hand ax, is a large, teardrop-shaped stone with a double-sided edge. Hominins also made cleavers and scrapers from bone. These tools \u2014 known as Acheulean technology \u2014 suggest that hominins gained an ability to conceptualize the shape of a complex tool and then sculpt a rock to bring it into existence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2015, Dr. de la Torre and his colleagues began digging a trench in a gully known as the T69 Complex, where they had previously found Acheulean stone tools on the ground. They hoped to find more of them embedded in the rock below, perhaps alongside bones and other clues to how hominins were using those tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They indeed found thousands of fossils of hippopotamuses, crocodiles and fish \u2014 animals that had lived in a pond or lake some 1.5 million years ago. The researchers discovered cut marks on the hippo bones as well as more than 10,000 stone tools. They did not find any fossils of the hominins who scavenged the animals, but judging from similar sites nearby, they suspected Homo erectus \u2014 a tall, bipedal hominin \u2014 was responsible for the butchering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then, in 2018, the scientists unearthed a surprise in their trench. As described in the new study, they found a hand ax, made not from stone but from elephant bone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To create the hand ax, hominins must have found an elephant carcass and smashed one of its massive limbs. Then, after breaking off a bone fragment, they gave it a sharp cutting edge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before this discovery, researchers had only found a few bones at other sites in East Africa. In 2020, for example, researchers reported finding a hand ax in Ethiopia dating back 1.4 million years, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/full\/10.1073\/pnas.2006370117\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">made from a hippo\u2019s femur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Compared with thousands of stone tools that had been found, bone tools were so rare that it was hard to know what to make of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe were not expecting at all that these humans were making bone tools,\u201d Dr. de la Torre said. \u201cIt led us to think there might be others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So the researchers dug a much bigger trench and found more bone tools, some from elephants and others from hippos. The researchers then looked back at pieces of bones they had previously unearthed, which they had assumed were just fragments broken open by hominins to eat the marrow inside. On closer inspection, they could see that some of those remains were tools as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In total, Dr. de la Torre and his colleagues found 27 bone tools, some as long as 15 inches. They were not rarities that hominins created once every 100,000 years: The scientists found all the tools in the same 20-inch-thick layer of sandstone, suggesting they were all used in a period of \u201cdozens of years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOne of the genuinely exciting things about the paper is that there are so many of these things in the same site, and that is genuinely unusual,\u201d said James Clark, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge who was not involved in the study. The hominins living there, he said, \u201cclearly are very comfortable working with bone, and they\u2019re clearly very familiar with doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They also seemed to plan how to use them in advance. Eight of the tools came from elephant bones, and yet the researchers found no trace of an elephant carcass. Dr. de la Torre said it was likely that the hominins had crafted the elephant-bone tools somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He speculated that the brains of hominins in this era were already so sophisticated that they could do more than just apply the image of a particular tool to any rock lying around. They went to extra lengths to obtain the bones and then turn them into tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dr. de la Torre said it was likely that other troves of bone tools await archaeologists at other ancient sites in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt may be the case that we archaeologists have not looked hard enough, with the right eyes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/05\/science\/early-human-bone-tools-axes.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans, unlike most other species, have a knack for making tools. 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