Human ancestors butchered and ate each other, study reveals
Hindustan TimesCut marks found on fossils of human leg bones are one of the earliest pieces of evidence that show that in ancient times, humans butchered each other and ate the flesh for survival, a recent study by science journal Nature stated. As per the study published by Nature on Monday, Early Pleistocene cut marked hominin fossil from Koobi Fora, Kenya, mentions that a 1.45-million-year-old hominin bone had cuts similar to butchery marks that have been found on animal bones from around the same time. Pobiner said that she had been examining a collection of fossils to look for animal bite marks at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, when she found “unexpected linear markings a few millimetres long on the fossil of a tibia belonging to an unidentified hominin species”, the report said. She concluded that while the marks looked nothing like animal bites, they did resemble those that had been made by stone tools.
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