Field Museum

Ice Age butcher’s tools are a sign of ancient humans’ creativity during hard times

Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the ...
Greek Reporter

146,000-Year-Old Butcher Tools Found in China Reveal Ice Age Ingenuity

Ancient butcher tools found in China at the 146,000-year-old Lingjing site reveal that Ice Age humans were far more advanced.
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Neanderthal Workshop Full of Animal Remains and Butchering Tools Unearthed

State broadcasters in Poland have announced the discovery of a Neanderthal workshop 65 miles (105 kilometers) from Warsaw, where archeologists say the ancient hominin would have repaired butchering ...
Time

Study: Lucy's Relatives Used Tools to Butcher Meat

A reconstruction of the skeleton of Lucy, the fossil hominid that was discovered in 1974 in a dried-up lake near Hadar, EthiopiaChristophe Boisvieux / Corbis The myth that humans are the only ...
The Conversation

We found 2.9‑million‑year‑old stone tools used to butcher ancient hippos – but likely not by our ancestors

On the shores of Lake Victoria in Kenya, a short valley extends south towards the looming Mount Homa. From it have emerged some of the oldest-known stone tools used to butcher large animals, as well ...