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Volume 155, Number 20 (May 15, 1999)

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Ancestral cut-ups

The oldest evidence of the butchering of a human ancestor appears on a South African fossil jaw that dates to 1.4 million years ago or earlier.

References:

Pickering, T.R., T.D. White, and N. Toth. 1999. Stone tool cut marks on Stw 53, an early hominid from Sterkfontien, South Africa. Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society. April. Columbus, Ohio.

Sources:

Travis R. Pickering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Anthropology
Madison, WI 53706

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 20, May 15, 1999, p. 315. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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