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Article: FREE-FOR-ALL FEASTS OF FLESH OFF THE BONE
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Humans living at a Paleolithic cave site in central Israel between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago were as successful at big-game hunting as were later Stone Age hunters at the site, but the earlier humans shared meat differently, surmises an anthropologist from the University of Arizona, Tucson. "The Lower Paleolithic [earlier] hunters were skilled hunters of large game animate, as were Upper Paleolithic pater] humans at this site," says Mary C. Stiner.
This might not seem like a big deal to the uninitiated, but there's a lot of speculation as to whether people of the late Lower Paleolithic were able to hunt at all, or whether they were reduced to just scavenging. Evidence from Qesem Cave ...