TUSK MASTERS: Neanderthals Were Expert Giant Elephant Hunters, Says Study

Professor Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, poses in undated photo. She was standing next to a life-size reconstruction of an adult male European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Germany. Note: Licensed content. (Lutz Kindler, LEIZA/Newsflash) Professor Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser, poses in undated photo. She was standing next to a life-size reconstruction of an adult male European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Germany. Note: Licensed content. (Lutz Kindler, LEIZA/Newsflash)
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02 February 2023
Primitive human ancestors were skilled hunters tracking down and killing giant elephants for food 125,000 years ago, a new study has revealed. The study of a pit containing animal remains at the Neanderthal Neumark-Nord site in Germany has shown how the 13-tonne beasts were stalked and...