Neandertals practiced close-range hunting 120,000 years ago

(Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz) An international team of scientists reports the oldest unambiguous hunting lesions documented in the history of humankind. The lesions were found on skeletons of two large-sized extinct fallow deer killed by Neandertals about 120,000 years ago around the shores of a small lake (Neumark-Nord 1) near present-day Halle in the eastern part of Germany.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news