125,000-year-old bones of 70 animals – each about three times the size of today’s Asian elephants – discovered near Halle
Dr Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser examines the femur of a large adult male elephant for the presence of cut marks.Dr Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser examines the femur of a large adult male elephant for the presence of cut marks.Last modified on Wed 1 Feb 2023 21.19 GMT
The bones of about 70 elephants from the Pleistocene era were discovered in the 1980s in a huge coal quarry that has since been converted into an artificial lake. The study suggests that the Neanderthals who lived in the area for 2,000 to 4,000 years were less mobile and formed social units “substantially larger than commonly envisaged”.
The researchers determined the elephants had been hunted – and not just scavenged – because of the age and sex profile of the remains found in the quarry.“It’s a typical selection made by hunters who went for the biggest prey,” Roebroeks said. “They could deal with it, either by preserving it for longer time periods – that is already something that we didn’t know – or simply by the fact that they lived in much, much larger groups than we commonly infer.”
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