January
15
/ 2022
Early humans began hunting prey animals two million years ago. A team of US scientists have proved ancient hunters ‘killed creatures for meat rather than having to scavenge from big cats.’ Animal bones from a two-million-year-old archaeological site called Kanjera South, near Lake Victoria in the west of Kenya, Africa, have been studied by a University of San Diego-led team of researchers. A new paper published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews presents gazelle and wildebeest bones having been cut with human crafted tools. The team said their paper provides evidence for the earliest strong indication for ‘hominin hunting.’ [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"93390","attributes":{"alt":"Notches on a bone left by ancient hunter butchering activity. (Jennifer A. Parkinson, Thomas W. Plummer, James S. Oliver, Laura C
