Apr 12, 2025
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A 90,000-year-old bone knife hints special tools appeared early in Africa
Africa’s Stone Age was also a Bone Age.
Ancient Africans took bone tools to a new level around 90,000 years ago by making pointed knives out of animals’ ribs, scientists say. Before then, bone tools served as simpler, general-purpose cutting devices.
Members of northern Africa’s Aterian culture, which originated roughly 145,000 years ago, started crafting sharp-tipped bone knives as fish and other seafood increasingly became dietary staples, researchers suggest online October 3 in PLOS ONE. The new find supports the view that strategic planning for survival and associated changes in toolmaking emerged much earlier in human evolution than has traditionally been assumed.
Excavations inside Dar es-Soltan 1 cave, near Morocco’s Atlantic coast, uncovered the bone knife in 2012, says a team led by geoarchaeologist Abdeljalil Bouzouggar of the National Institute of Archaeological and Heritage Sciences in Rabat, Morocco, and biological anthropologist Silvia Bello of the Natural History Museum in London. The knife’s base and its broken-off tip were embedded in sediment that dates to about 90,000 years ago. Read more.
Hey! I made a new bone knife!
Dude @i-swear-im-an-adult this could do a foot!
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A few of today's finished projects. The pendant and bone knife are sold!! If you'd like the bowl visit my etsy shop or message me here. Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LunarLightForge Thanks everyone!!