Earliest Evidence of Human Hunting Found

LiveScience ^ | May 13, 2013 | Tia Ghose

[EveningStar]

Archaeologists have unearthed what could be the earliest evidence of ancient human ancestors hunting and scavenging meat.

Animal bones and thousands of stone tools used by ancient hominins suggest that early human ancestors were butchering and scavenging animals at least 2 million years ago.

[EveningStar]

ping

[muir_redwoods]

Carved stone empty beer cans?

[Cowboy Bob]

Ahhh! You stole my comment! :( I was going to say prehistoric beer cans...

[Pollster1]

The site also contained the cracked skulls of larger antelopes . . . "Scavengers like hyenas will consume all the rest of the carcass, but they'll leave the heads behind because they can't crack them open to extract the brains," Ferraro said. The team hypothesized that ancient human ancestors found the discarded heads in their landscape, and then cracked open the skulls to access the fatty, nutritious, energy-rich brains.

Ancient zombie ancestors?

[Jack Hammer]

I often feel I’m old enough to remember it first-hand.

[muir_redwoods]

So, you’ve been hunting?

[Sacajaweau]

That blows the old 200,000 years theory out of the water.

But wait....Perhaps there is millions in grant money to prove that these people are like soooo wrong??

[MrB]

I had to quit hunting with my brother because he thought hunting and drinking went together like peas and carrots.

[count-your-change]

A spear with a 6x scope on it?

[allmendream]

The theory says there were human ancestors two million years ago. Nobody said they were anatomically modern humans.

[Conserev1]

Damn they found my ancestors Assault Rock!

[a fool in paradise]

They found a cave painting that resembles this:

[Conserev1]

butchering and scavenging animals at least 2 million years ago.
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My Gosh how terrible! No one wanted to be a plant eater!
Where was PETA????????????

[onedoug]

The old Y-5 pattern with requisite wear.

[allmendream]

"Am I over my limit for saber tooth tigers?" "What do you mean 'protected species'?"

[Conserev1]

I guess none were killed for hide that kept them warm, or the tools that can be made from bone!
I think it was called Survival!

[ZX12R]

In before the young earther kooks.

[allmendream]

Well it was in Africa - so I don’t think keeping warm was much of an issue. And the site was littered with stone tools, and the bones were scraped with stone tools - so tools made from bone may well have been in use as well.

[Conserev1]

Well you might not like your can being roughed up sittin on a rock or even keeping an African bug off your butt!