'We just know that some tool-wielding hominin came and cut meat off of that bone.'
outlines previously-unnoticed archaeological findings that imply an ancient hominin cut up and ate another in what may now be the oldest-known evidence of cannibalism — though there are still lots of questions about whichin its look at the study, these stunning conclusions came from distinctive marks on a 1.45 million-year-old shin bone that not only indicate that the bone was cut at the knee in a style used to strip meat, but also that a large cat chewed on it as well.
"We just know that some tool-wielding hominin came and cut meat off of that bone," Smithsonian paleoanthropologist Briana Pobiner, one of the coauthors of the study, told the magazine. "The most plausible explanation is that they did that to eat it." "I’ve seen tool marks on many animal fossils from this area and time period, so I thought, 'Wow, I definitely know what this is,'" the researcher added. "But I also thought — 'Surprise! This is definitely not what I thought I would find.'"
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