michael8-Oct-2025
Early #humans butchered #elephants using small tools and made big tools from their bones
Multiple sites in central Italy show consistent strategy during warm parts of the #MiddlePleistocene
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1100481
See also my feature on the long suffering of elephants:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-long-history-of-elephants-suffering.html
#science #anthropology #palaeoanthropology #ecology #hunting #megafauna
Early humans butchered elephants using small tools and made big tools from their bones
During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat and raw materials, according to a study published October 8, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by Beniamino Mecozzi of Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and colleagues.