Ancient humans in Israel once ate elephants. When they disappeared, weapons improved-A new paper from researchers at Tel Aviv University proposes a link between the disappearance of large prey and advancements in hunting and technology

Times of Israel ^ | 9-7-23 | MELANIE LIDMAN

[bunkerhill7]

The cave women drive their cave husbands to get more and more ivory and make jewelry for them to show off to other cave women.
It’s a psychological fact of female behavior with males and other females.. “oh look where on earth did you get that big shiny rock on your finger!” These scientist don’t even use common sense.

[bunkerhill7]

It still goes on in Africa today with elephant poachers...oh wait n...they are after the elephant fat...hahaha

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SJackson!

[SunkenCiv]

The rest of the Qesem Cave keyword, sorted:

• Meet Nesher Ramla Homo: New Early Human Discovered at Israeli Cement Site [06/25/2021]
• A Previously Unknown Type of Ancient Human Has Been Discovered in The Levant [06/24/2021]
• Israeli Archaeologists Solve Mystery of Prehistoric Stone Balls [04/17/2020]
• Prehistoric humans ate bone marrow like canned soup 400,000 years ago... [10/18/2019]
• Teeth found near Tel Aviv point to a new prehistoric human species [06/21/2015]
• 400,000-year-old dental tartar provides earliest evidence of manmade pollution [06/17/2015]
• 300,000-year-old hearth found: Microscopic evidence shows repeated fire use in one spot over time [01/28/2014]
• The Disappearance of the Elephant Caused the Rise of Modern Man [12/12/2011]
• Archaeologists find blade production earlier than originally thought [10/17/2011]
• Ancient teeth raise new questions about the origins of modern man [02/09/2011]
• Palaeolithic cutlery 400 000-200 000 years ago: tiny meat-cutting tools from Qesem Cave, Israel [08/31/2010]

[gnarledmaw]

Thats kinda what I was thinking, “...well, only the front end.”

[BenLurkin]

https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/man-walking-with-metal-detector-finds-cache-of-gold-jewelry-dating-back-to-500-ad-find-of-the-century/

[null and void]

In other words, they were driven out of the Garden of Eden.

I've heard (herd?) there was no death and therefore no predation in The Garden...

[airborne]

My high school English teacher had a saying on her chalkboard.

“You can eat an elephant if you chew slowly enough. “

Weird that its my first thought, 40 years later.

I wonder how elephants taste.

[null and void]

What sort of superweapons will be developed to hunt single cells? I'd think extreme accuracy would be crucial.

These days we ensnare them in milk to make cheese, in water and grains to make bread and beer...

[null and void]

Like chicken?