During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat and raw materials, according to a study published October 8, 2025 in the ...

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

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 ...

A closeup of the elephant bone tool’s striking surface, showing the marks of it being struck against flint tools. A remarkable prehistoric hammer made from elephant bone, dating back nearly half a ...

In modern-day Italy, the closest you will get to an elephant is in a zoo. But 400,000 years ago, a large species of straight-tusked elephants roamed Europe - and an unlucky few ended up on the dinner ...

Elephants were on the menu for hominins living in Italy 400,000 years ago, and a rare fossil reveals the tools they used, as well as those they got out of the process. It’s no secret that our ...

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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 ...