The ancient craftspeople weren’t just grabbing any bones either. They carefully selected limb bones from large mammals, with a strong preference for elephant bones despite elephants being rare at the ...

A lear later, the government expanded the work to civilians and authorized testing on limb bones. In all, 1,280 remains of Japanese war-dead, including six on Okinawa, have been identified by DNA ...

"Precise anatomical knowledge and understanding of bone morphology are suggested by preference given to thick limb bones and the application of recurrent flaking procedures," the authors wrote.

Lower limb amputations facilitated by surgeons at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) – one of the biggest tertiary academic hospitals in the country – is increasing rapidly. And the question researchers and ...

An assemblage of tools found in Tanzania that was fashioned about 1.5 million years ago from the limb bones of elephants and hippos reveals what scientists are calling a technological breakthrough for ...

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 ...