"500,000-Year-Old Tools Show Humans Butchered Elephants" Topic
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| Tango01 | 26 Mar 2015 12:54 p.m. PST |
"Stone tools that are half a million years old have been unearthed in Israel — and they still have traces of elephant fat clinging to them.
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DCI The new discovery shows that ancient humans used tools to process and butcher large animals, researchers say. Though anthropologists had strongly suspected that early humans used tools to break down a carcass for its muscle, fat and marrow, "there was no smoking gun to show that the stone tools were, indeed, used for these kinds of tasks," said study co-author Ran Barkai, a professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University in Israel…"
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| Rich Bliss | 26 Mar 2015 8:18 p.m. PST |
Well, I didn't think they ate them whole. |
Dave Jackson  | 27 Mar 2015 6:50 a.m. PST |
Not sure why people are so surprised |
| Dave Jackson | 27 Mar 2015 6:51 a.m. PST |
Probably wiped their bums with leaves too |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 27 Mar 2015 9:51 a.m. PST |
Elephant- The other other other white meat! |
| charared | 27 Mar 2015 3:59 p.m. PST |
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