[SunkenCiv]

Scar marks on extinct cave lion bones (pictured) suggest that early humans hunted and ate the predator.

[JoeProBono]

[USNBandit]

"Yeah, we used to hunt lions. Survival of the fittest, you know.

You people whine when your cell phone battery dies. Imagine having to take on a lion with just a stone tipped spear."

[sinanju]

Gee, I dunno, I specifically recall reading as a teenager in the late Peter Hathaway Capstick’s 1977 classic “Death in the Long Grass” that the big cats are practically inedible. It would be insanely dangerous to take one one with spears. Which is not to say it isn’t done. In addition to the Masai moran, the Mycenaean Greeks went in for spearing lions but it was a dangerous sport.

I’ll wager a lot more H. Heidelbergensis were eaten by lions than vice versa.

[Sawdring]

which was a bit bigger than today's African lion.

I went to the zoo a couple months back with my boy. At the African Lion exhibit you can stand right next to them as they continually pace behind 4" glass. Those beasts are massive! It would have been a dangerous game to hunt one or more of those back then, especially with flint tipped weapons.

[dr_who]

Seems like there’s been a steady trickle of archaelogical evidence to suggest that cavemen weren’t pussies. Shouldn’t be too surprising I suppose. I’ve often wondered what people back then thought about.

[wendy1946]

The evidence most likely indicate that early humans found a dead lion and ate it. NO predator earns its living by killing other predators its own size or larger; you wouldn’t live long enough on average to reproduce.

[pallis]

More than a few modern day hunters like the sweet taste of lion stew.

[Eaker]

Neanderthal ancestors skinned and defleshed the lion,

More proof of your heritage?

[Sax]

People are people and the mind itself probably hasn’t changed too terribly much. I’d think that they could’ve used terrain, coordination, confusion, and maybe fire to corner and kill damned near anything. If food is the biggest problem to solve and mammals live nearby, that problem can be solved.

[bert]

.....the tasty viscera would have been long gone......

What a sentence to wake up to. Some hoe an omelet just isn’t going to do the job when I could have had tasty viscera

[eleni121]

Chauvet Cave shows that 32,000 years ago there were lions of every sort. There were elephants and rhinos etc.

The cultural history of Europe is replete with lion references as well most notably of Hercules and the Nemean Lion.

[colorado tanker]

Lion. It’s the other white meat.