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Butchering dinner 3.4 million years ago

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Slashed animal bones suggest early hominins were chopping up predator kills earlier than we thought.

Early hominins were using stone tools to butcher meat as long ago as 3.4 million years, about 800,000 years earlier than previous evidence dates to, scientists report in this week's issue of Nature.1

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  1. McPherron, S. P. et al. Nature 466, 857-860 (2010).

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Lovett, R. Butchering dinner 3.4 million years ago. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.399

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