Butchered Elephant Fossil From India Identified

Archaeology Magazine ^ | October 23, 2024 | editors / unattributed

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According to an IFL Science report, a new study of fossils of the giant elephant Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus discovered in 2000 in northern India's Kashmir Valley suggests that hominins extracted marrow from the bones between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago. Advait Jukar of the Florida Museum of Natural History explained that he and his colleagues identified a bone flake formed by repeated hammering with stone implements, presumably some of the 87 stone tools discovered alongside the bones. "Initially, the bone was struck several times in an attempt to initiate the fracture," Jukar said. "However, these initial attempts failed, requiring a subsequent, more forceful blow, possibly with a heavier hammerstone, to fully fracture the bone. The overall morphology of this flake closely resembles an impact flake produced in [previous] marrow processing experiments," he explained. The tools found at the site, he added, were made of basalt, which is not found in the area. The unidentified hominins may have brought the basalt from another location, but it is not clear if they came to the site to hunt elephants or to scavenge one that had already died. "Now we know for sure, at least in the Kashmir Valley, these hominins are eating elephants," Jukar concluded.

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Marc Dickinson and Advait Jukar clean the elephant skull in 2019.

Courtesy of Advait Jukar

• Ancient Hominins Ate Giant Elephant, Earliest Evidence Of Animal Butchery In India Reveals | Eleanor Higgs | IFLScience | Edited by Maddy Chapman | October 2024

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[Red Badger]

I hunt elephants in Alabama...........

[Larry Lucido]

“How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”

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I wonder how many people that fed and for how long?

[SunkenCiv]

It’s not impossible that the practice of turning Indian elephants into living backhoes and such is prehistoric in origin, in which case, when the critter can’t do the jobs assigned to it, it became the guest of honor at a major area feast.

[SunkenCiv]

“We’re running out of the big kaiser rolls.”

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, at least they’re red, not blue.

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Butchered Elephant Fossil From India Identified

Click bait.

The article never declares what’s it’s name was..../S

[READINABLUESTATE]

I wonder how many gallons of BBQ sauce was used.

[SunkenCiv]

lol

[Adder]

His name was Bob...even in death he was caring and fed many people.
There are call centers today that owe their very existence to Bob.

[Red Badger]

I hunt elephants in Alabama because the Tuscaloosa there...........

[Red Badger]

Curry!.....................

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[Larry Lucido]

So does cashmere come from Kashmir? Did Led Zeppelin members actually go to Kashmir before they wrote that song?

[DannyTN]

Please Don’t be Babar!!!

[Vendome]

LOL!

[TexasGator]

it’s >> its

[SunkenCiv]

Tusk, tusk.