Dates of team hunting/sharing pushed back to 400,000 to 200,000 years ago

[dogwood]

Lately, a variety of really exciting archaeological papers have been published out of Middle Eastern sites.

This week there's a a really interesting paper about artifacts from a cave in Israel that indicate that between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago we were already engaged in group hunting and food sharing as a common practice.

Interestingly, the findings suggest the hunters were bringing the meat back to the cave for processing, rather than doing that at the kill site. This is the earliest date known for this kind of behavior.

I haven't read the whole paper (it's behind a pay wall) but the juicy parts are discussed here:

http://www.physorg.com/news174740646.html

It's really worth a read if you've got a few moments.

 

[joejoe]

thank you for posting that very interesting

 

[jonnno]

Is an interesting article. I've always been interested in what happened to all the groups of humans across the world that existed prior to the out of Africa event 70,000 years ago.