Straight-Tusked Elephant Exploitation Was Widespread among Neanderthals, Archaeologists Say

Science News ^ | December 7, 2023 | News Staff

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Straight-tusked elephants were the largest land mammals of the Pleistocene epoch, present in Europe and western Asia between 800,000 and 100,000 years ago.

These animals had a very wide head and extremely long tusks, and were roughly three times larger than that of living Asian elephants, twice that of African ones, and also much larger than woolly mammoths.

Estimates of maximum shoulder height vary from 3 to 4.2 m (10-14 feet) and body mass from 4.5 to 13 tons for females and males, respectively.

"We have estimated that the meat and fat supplied by the body of an adult Palaeoloxodon antiquus bull would have been sufficient to satisfy the daily calorie intake of at least 2,500 adult Neanderthals," Professor Gaudzinski-Windheuser said.

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My pleasure!

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LOL

[Lean-Right]

They weren’t very prolithic.
Adoption was the only
recourse for raising
a family. The waiting
period was two years.

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For how many days, or only one meal?

[dfwgator]

For how many days, or only one meal?

Neanderthals invented Intermittent Fasting?

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daily intake!!!