Henry Bunn, anthropologist from Wisconsin University, speaking at the annual European Society for the study of Human Evolution meeting in Bordeaux this year, has suggested that the date that humans began hunting down large prey for food needs to be pushed back over a million and a half years after studying evidence of carcasses of antelopes, gazelles and wildebeest left behind by Homo habilis at a site in Tanzania. He said evidence there indicates that early man was hunting in an organized fashion some two million years ago. Read more at: phys.org...

Originally posted by grey580
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And now we have some evidence that man is alot older than has been previously thought.

When leopards and lions hunt down and eat the larger species of antelope, for example, they tend to go for the young or old, as they are generally easier to bring down. Evidence at the Tanzania site however shows that early humans were eating such animals that were in their prime. On the other hand, when the big cats go after the smaller species of antelope, they tend to capture those in their prime, while early man seemed to prefer the young and the old.

Originally posted by UmbraSumus

Originally posted by grey580
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And now we have some evidence that man is alot older than has been previously thought.

I thought this was just evidence that humans hunted for meat earlier than previously thought - not that "man" is older than previously thought .....

Originally posted by MarcellusWallace
Now the human fossils found in 300 million years old sediments remain to be explained.

Originally posted by MarcellusWallace
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