The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

Choosing the best knife sharpener can be difficult, given the myriad of choices. However, being able to properly maintain the edge on your cutting tools—whether it’s a pocket knife or a fillet ...

You really want a small hunting knife to field dress a deer. What you’re doing is akin to surgery, and you wouldn’t want a surgeon to pull your appendix out with a bowie knife. That said ...

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You’ll find my top two knives: The TOPS Fieldcraft 3.5 and Mora Garberg in this review. You’ll also find selections from Outdoor Life staff, mainly OL’s gear editor who enjoys bushcraft as a way to ...

I’ve spent a lot of time around pocket knives over the years, testing blades from many brands you’ve probably heard of—and a few you might not. And while I’ve only scratched the surface of ...

Before this discovery, it was believed that our primitive ancestors relied almost exclusively on stone tools. However, the finding suggests that hominins of this era also exploited other materials, ...

Bone artifacts discovered in Tanzania push back the earliest known date of bone tool technology by over a million years. In Olduvai Gorge, archaeologists have discovered a range of bone tools thought ...

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A 1.5-million-year-old cache of animal-bone tools reveals that ancient humans systematically crafted with this material much earlier than previously thought. Researchers uncovered 27 bone ...

The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...