[SunkenCiv]

Neanderthals Kept Animal Skulls as Hunting Trophies

Image Credit : Javier Trueba

[Yo-Yo]

...one bite at a time...

[Fido969]

One bite at a time.

[Larry Lucido]

Leftover elephant does keep well.

[RoosterRedux]

I hope the elephant was distributed equally among the tribe members. Anything else would be unfair and might hurt the feelings of those fat kids who refused to go on the hunt because they wanted to stay warm by the fire.

[BradyLS]

So those huge ribs on The Flintstones were no comic exaggeration.

[CFW]

Ground-breaking study right there! Coming up next! Indians and early American settlers lived in groups big enough to eat large buffalo. Alaskans lived in big enough groups to use every single part of a whale, including the bones. Mid-west settlers lived in big enough groups to grow and consume bushels of corn.

We need new headline writers!

[gundog]

Probably took a good sized group to hunt them effectively.

[Boogieman]

“Neanderthals could form much larger social groups than previously thought...”

Or perhaps this was just the location of a McAnderthals franchise that supplied many tribes with mammoth burgers

[4yearlurker]

Thant's the thing about giant elephants,they're just as good the next day.-Jed Clampett.

[PIF]

Groups like that on were the hunters who supplied the ‘groceries’ to still larger groups that lived in their ice cities on the glaciers. Unfortunately, the ice melted and we are left with many puzzles.

[Trump_Triumphant]

How do they know?

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

But did they have Elephant Burger Helper?

[NWFree]

Libtards have been killing republicans for a long time

[Billthedrill]

Oh, man, roast elephant, elephant burgers, elephant casserole, elephant kebabs, elephant ravioli, elephant sausages, night after night... I’d go extinct too.

[Palio di Siena]

In Alabama the Tuscaloosa
But that’s irrelephant.

Apologies to Groucho Marx.

[freedumb2003]

Well, you can’t eat them one sandwich at a time now, can you?

[ganeemead]

Two pieces of good news wrt theNeanderthal:

He is extinct and we are not related to him other than via similar design

[alexander_busek]

On the muddy shores of a lake in east-central Germany, Neanderthals gathered some 125,000 years ago to butcher massive elephants. With sharp stone tools, they harvested up to 4 tons of flesh from each animal, according to a new study that is casting these ancient human relatives in a new light. The degree of organization required to carry out the butchery—and the sheer quantity of food it provided—suggests Neanderthals could form much larger social groups than previously thought.

pages 96-97

THE KILL IS CUT UP

At dusk, in the smoking aftermath of the drive, hunters are butchering one of their kill. Already they have hacked through the thick hide to reach their prime target, the soft organs like the heart and liver [...] Squatting in the foreground, a man is greedily helping himself to brains scooped from a severed head; a crushed elephant skull was found in just this position. Walking away from the carcass, an adolescent with a slab of flesh on a stick over his shoulder balances on a crude bridge of disjointed leg bones.

In the summer of 1963, digging at Ambrona, Clark Howell came upon just such a linear pattern of elephant bones (see photograph). [...] It seems unlikely that the bones were laid thus as part of a ceremony since no evidence of such behavior by Homo erectus exists from other sites.

NOTE: Homo erectus predates Neanderthal Man!

See also the image of Neanderthals having bagged a Wolly Rhino on pages 134-135 of the same volume:

This article purports to present us with something new?!

The Life Nature Library was published in the 1960s!

Regards,

[central_va]

How hungry do you have to be to hunt a giant elephant with sharpened sticks?

[Last Dakotan]

What round for massive elephant?