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Planned hunting and butchering evidence of large animals has been found in....​

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Archaeologists have unearthed what could be the earliest evidence of ancient human ancestors hunting and scavenging meat.

Animal bones and thousands of stone tools used by ancient hominins suggest that early human ancestors were butchering and scavenging animals at least 2 million years ago. The findings, published April 25 in the journal PLOS ONE, support the idea that ancient meat eating might have fueled big changes in Homo species at that time.

"Just about that time — 2 million years ago — we see big shifts in the human fossil record of increase in brain size, increase in body size and hominins leaving Africa for Eurasia," said study co-author Joseph Ferraro, an archaeologist at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. The meaty meals may have provided the energy for those transformations, he said.

Previously, the earliest evidence of eating meat, found in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, dates to 1.8 million years ago. But that fossil record doesn't suggest clear evidence of hunting and scavenging for meat until more than a million years later, Ferraro said.

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