Butchered Animal Bones from Gona, Ethiopia
Eating meat from large animals
Stone tool marks on this extinct zebra ankle bone fossil look like those made during butchery experiments. Scientists have made experimental stone tools and used them to butcher modern animals. There is a strong similarity between the marks their tools made and the marks on fossil animal bones, indicating that early humans used stone tools to butcher animals by this time.
Exhibit Item
Site:
Gona, Ethiopia
Year of Discovery:
Discovered by:
A team led by Sileshi Semaw
Age:
About 2.6 million years old
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Cut-marked Fossil Zebra Bone OG56-1 Gona, Ethiopia