Sunday, 2 December 2018

Strongest evidence of early humans butchering animals discovered in North Africa

Strongest evidence of early humans butchering animals discovered in North Africa

On a high grassy plateau in Algeria, just 100 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea, early human ancestors butchered extinct horses, antelopes, and other animals with primitive stone tools 2 million to 2.4 million years ago. The dates, reported today, push back the age of the oldest tools in North Africa by as much as a half a million years and provide new insight into how these protohumans spread across the continent.

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