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How To Hunt Like A Neanderthal

Our hominin family tree includes plenty of meat-eaters, going back a couple million years at least — this is not news. But it's one thing to find evidence of animals that were butchered and consumed by our ancestors and closest kin. It's another to figure out how they got their groceries.Deer bones excavated from a site in Germany and dated to 120,000 years ago are the earliest clear evidence of how our evolutionary siblings, the Neanderthals, hunted.
To be clear, European excavatio
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