Neandertals may have hunted in horse-trapping teams 200,000 years ago

Neandertals may have hunted in horse-trapping teams 200,000 years ago

A revised age for a German site indicates that our evolutionary cousins organized horse ambushes around 200,000 years ago.

The Neanderthals formed sophisticated hunting parties that led wild horses into deadly traps about 200,000 years ago. At the Schöningen site in Germany, wooden spears, double point sticks, stone artifacts and massacred remains of more than 50 horses [...]