Posted on 12/03/2023 5:37:46 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Leibniz Zentrum für Archäologie and Leiden University say they have found cut marks on the bones of two beaver species from the 400,000-year-old hominin open air site of Bilzingsleben in central Germany. Their results demonstrate a greater diversity of prey choice by Middle Pleistocene hominins than commonly acknowledged, and a much deeper history of broad-spectrum subsistence than commonly assumed, already visible in prey choices 400,000 years ago...
They used magnifying glasses and digital microscopes to analyze 2,496 remains (1,963 teeth and 533 cranial and postcranial bones and bone fragments) of two beaver species: the living Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) and the extinct giant beaver Trogontherium cuvieri.
This enabled them to identify cut marks from stone tools that indicate intensive use of the carcasses.
Based on the cut mark distribution pattern, beaver may have been targeted for their skins, as well as for their meat.
It is interesting that the beaver remains from Bilzingsleben mainly represent young adults.
(Excerpt) Read more at sci.news ...
I’m very disappointed. I feverishly clicked on this thread like a young lad who has just found his father’s porno magazines, the hoped for quips of wit and hilarity fair making my my heart throb and my blood pressure race and....Meh.
C’mon people!
Early man hunting BEAVER!
Even the ladies out there should be pouncing on this thread with wild abandon!
C’mon! Crank it up to 11!
I’m only here for the comments...
I’m not quite up yet, had a penetrating comment, but it slid past by an RCH...
Reminds me of the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys instrumental BIG BEAVER(1940)
Really? We’ve got a nice buffet over there, I recommend the rumaki.
No wonder Elton John never did country.
I tried the fish...
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