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https://www.europesays.com/uk/830949/ Neanderthals May Have Hunted Giant Elephants that Roamed across Prehistoric Europe #diet #elephant #EU #Europe #European #fossil #Germany #HomoNeanderthalensis #human #Hunting #IceAge #Migration #Molar #Neanderthal #NeumarkNord #Palaeoloxodon #PalaeoloxodonAntiquus #Pleistocene #Proboscidea #StraightTuskElephant #teeth

https://www.europesays.com/ie/388757/ Neanderthals May Have Hunted Giant Elephants that Roamed across Prehistoric Europe #diet #Éire #elephant #Europe #fossil #Germany #HomoNeanderthalensis #Human #hunting #IceAge #IE #Ireland #Migration #Molar #Neanderthal #NeumarkNord #Palaeoloxodon #PalaeoloxodonAntiquus #Pleistocene #Proboscidea #Science #StraightTuskElephant #Teeth

A new study, led by @paleomonrepos and @leidenarchaeology together with @lda_sachsenanhalt, shows that Neanderthals systematically broke bones to extract valuable fat — much earlier than previously thought. A milestone that changes our view of Neanderthals as clever and strategic hunter-gatherers.

#LEIZArchaeology #paleomonrepos #Neanderthals #Neandertaler #Archäologie #Archaeology #Research #Forschung #Prehistory #Paleolithic #NeumarkNord #Anthropology #BecomingHuman

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv1257?fbclid=IwY2xjawLUbxpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBsN1BlNlNaY2pCSXZqTE02AR5K0qV__skNS3JrUwdoyMnY7gY5z1HVDrLGx92godzH643MWyRwQzJr0bwktw_aem_5x7TfQcOtZ4h6o_MOk5YZw

The original #NeumarkNord site should've been somewhere around here (arrow) - the whole former pit mine having become a rather idyllic lake and recreation area in the meantime.

Here contrasted with a view into the actual earlier excavation situation of some of the 125,000 y/o #elephant bones (with #Neanderthal-caused butchering cut marks) at #NeumarkNord 1 (as seen in the Phännerhall exhibition).

And boy, with shoulder height of up to 4.2 m and weighing about 11-15 t each, these #elephants have been quite some giant and quite commanding figures.

Here the reconstructed specimen at Pfännerhall #Geiseltal, based on the bones of individual E8 from the #NeumarkNord 1 site.

@spoke32 @MuseumHalle @sciencemagazine

The original #NeumarkNord site should've been somewhere around here (the whole former pit mine a rather idyllic lake and recreation area today).

@spoke32 @sciencemagazine @MuseumHalle

Here contrasted with an actual excavation situation of some of the 125,000 y/o #elephant bones (with #Neanderthal-caused butchering cut marks) at #NeumarkNord 1 (as seen in the #Pfännerhall exhibition).

@spoke32 @sciencemagazine @MuseumHalle

And, wow, have they been huge (quite some intimidating quarry):

A shoulder height of up to 4.2 m, weighing about 11-15 t. 🐘😲

(Here a reconstructed specimen at Pfännerhall #Geiseltal, based on the bones of individual E8 from the #NeumarkNord 1 site).