Pleistocene Bone Tools

[uniface]

Seriously neat article on knapped megafauna bone tools.

Unknown ancient humans made elephant bone tools to carve meat 400,000 years ago in a way not thought to be possible until 100,000 years later, archaeologists say - Scoopy Web

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

Interesting.

And to think Mel Brooks was there to see it all.

 

[old digger]

Are you sure it wasn't Hannibal's men that butchered and utilized one of the elephants that died enroute over the Alps?