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Phys.Org:Researcher finds earliest evidence of human ancestors hunting and scavenging

The report is from a group that has been excavating a 2 million year old site located on the shores of Lake Victoria, Kenya. They have found many bones from many small antelope carcasses and the skulls from larger animals. The selection of the small antelope bones includes all the bones from the animal, so they must have been hunted, since other predators would have eaten the whole carcass and left little or nothing for our ancestors to scavenge. The skulls however are another matter. They did not find many bones matching them. So they were probably scavenged from predator kill sites where the heads were left intact because they were not easily broken open.

So it seems that people who say our remote ancestors were scavengers are right, and people who say our remote ancestors were hunters are right. They did both.

Bill Gill

hunters , fishermen , foragers , thieves , planners , planters , scavengers and cannibals.

what ever it took to survive.

that's the way I have always seen it.