Happy #FossilFriday 🐘
Here is the partial skeleton of a straight-tusked elephant from Marathousa 1, a Lower #Paleolithic site in the Megalopolis basin, Southern Greece. This skeleton belonged to a male individual in its late adulthood (around 60 years) and shows evidence of #cutmarks😯 It is also one of at least two individuals of this taxon found in Marathousa 1!
Read the paper by Konidaris et al. 2018 ⬇️
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.12.001
📷 Panagopoulou et al. 2015
In Germany we have saying about lazily "lying on a bearskin" 🥱🐻 - and apparently that's been a thing for at least 300,000 years ...
(As #CutMarks on #CaveBear bones discovered at the #Paleolithic site of #Schöningen in Lower Saxony suggest:)
Among such traces are, for instance, #CutMarks on human bones - whose origin and meaning, admittedly, could have a variety of possible reasons ... of which the removal of flesh (physical "#excarnation") *might* be one.
This rather recent study on skull fragments from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of #GöbekliTepe may illustrate that point:
Ruth Carden 🦴🦌🐕
Harvati lab at Uni Tübingen
Jens Notroff