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From: Savant	10/9/2025 10:05:57 AM
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Ancient humans butchered giant elephants with thumb-sized tools At a fossil site in Rome, Italy paleontologists uncovered a set of straight-tusked elephant remains dating back 404,000 years—a comparatively warm period during the Middle Pleistocene. Near the bones, researchers also identified over 500 small stone tools. Most of these implements measured less than 1.2 inches long, possibly due to the region’s lack of larger stones. However, the miniature accessories didn’t seem to stop a group of humans from felling and butchering the elephant. Multiple bones had fractures that were inflicted shortly after death, each matching to blunt force impact marks. However, the lack of cutting and scrapping evidence on the bones implies that the hunters used their stone tools to cut into the animal’s soft tissues. Ancient humans butchered giant elephants with thumb-sized tools

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