Researchers Find 80,000 Year Old Bone Tools

These tools were probably used to dig holes in the ground and to debark trees.

Bone tools were previously thought to have been a modern human invention that was introduced to Europe some 40,000 years ago. But the discover of bone tools dating back 100,000 years, have been found in many African locations as a result of research conducted over the past 20 years. These early bone tools, however, are uncommon and have irregular shapes…