Anthropology.net1.78 million years ago, hominins at Olduvai Gorge were breaking open elephant long bones for marrow — the oldest such evidence in East Africa. New spatial and taphonomic analysis makes the case. #Paleoanthropology #Olduvai #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-18-million-year-old-elephant-butchery
A 1.8-Million-Year-Old Elephant Butchery Site in Tanzania Rewrites the Timeline of Human Megafaunal Exploitation
New spatial and taphonomic evidence from Olduvai Gorge suggests our ancestors were processing giant elephants far earlier — and more systematically — than the fossil record had indicated.