Nine cut marks on a fossilized shin bone suggest that ancient human relatives butchered and possibly ate one another 1.45 million years ago, according to a new study
The fossilized tibia was found in the collection of National Museums of Kenya’s Nairobi National Museum by Briana Pobiner, a paleoanthropologist at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. Pobiner was studying the collection, looking for bite marks from extinct animals that might have preyed on ancient hominins, when she came across cuts that looked like they had been made by stone tools.
Hominins eating hominins By themselves, the cuts do not definitively prove that the ancient human relative who inflicted the damage also made a meal out of the leg, but Pobiner said it was possible. The marks are located where a calf muscle would have been attached to the bone — a good place to cut if the aim was to remove flesh. “The information we have tells us that hominins were likely eating other hominins at least 1.45 million years ago,” Pobiner said.
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