Tag: Elephant bone
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Oldest Elephant Bone Ax Sharpener Found in Europe (UK)
Introduction: A Glimpse into Europe’s Ancient Tool-Makers In a remarkable find that reshapes our understanding of prehistoric European technology, researchers have identified a 480,000-year-old artifact crafted from elephant bone. This triangular tool functioned as an ax sharpener, offering rare evidence that early human relatives in the British Isles refined tools with precision far earlier than…
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Oldest Elephant Bone Tool Discovered in Europe: A 480,000-Year-Old Axe Sharpener
Introduction: A Window into Europe’s Ancient Tech A tiny, triangular artifact has rewritten parts of Europe’s early technological story. Dated to roughly 480,000 years ago, the bone tool—crafted from an elephant’s leg bone—has been identified as an axe sharpener used by archaic human relatives in what is now Britain. This discovery not only extends the…