Human ancestors carved meat with stone tools almost a million years earlier than expected
One of our ancestral species, Australopithecus afarensis, used stone tools to flay meat off bones, leaving small nicks with every cut. Now, newly-discovered marked bones push back the earliest estimates of human tool use by 800,000 years. In January 2009, a team led by Shannon McPherron from the Max Planck Institute found bones which had…
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Ed Yong - Discover
