US EditionHow to Eat an Elephant: Fossil Find in Tanzania Shows Oldest Signs of Butchering These Giant Mammals
Researchers used bone patterns and stone tools to identify one of the earliest known elephant butchery events, they said.
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Tanzania: How to Eat an Elephant - Fossil Find in Tanzania Shows Oldest Signs of Butchering These Giant Mammals
Analysis - Imagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg. This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that roamed the landscape of what is now Tanzania nearly two million years ago. Now, imagine a group of our ancestors standing over its carcass, then butchering it and eating it.
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Phys.orgHow to eat an elephant: fossil find in Tanzania shows oldest signs of butchering these giant mammals
Carcass of adult African elephant. By Geraldshields11 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, , CC BY-SAImagine a creature nearly twice the size of a modern African elephant (which can weigh up to 6,000kg. This was Elephas (Paleoxodon) recki, a prehistoric titan that roamed the landscape of what is now Tanzania nearly two million years ago. Now, imagine a group of our ancestors standing over its carcass, then butchering it and eating it. For decades, archaeol…
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