Published 22:06 IST, October 10th 2019

Israel archeologists find that early cavemen ate bone marrow

Scientists in Israel have reportedly found evidence which reveals that early humans used to save animal bones to feast on the fatty bone marrow for later

Reported by: Aanchal Nigam
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Scientists in Israel have reportedly found evidence which revealed that early humans used to save animal bones to feast on fatty bone marrow later. earliest humans, called Hominins who used to live in Qesem Cave in central Israel during Palaeolithic period around 400,000 to 220,000 years ago preserved long bones of fallow deer. This discovery is me by a team of Israeli and Spanish scientists. According to an Israeli media, experiments were me on de deer which disclosed that bone marrow remains edible for nearly nin-weeks after death of animal.  

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How did y figure this out?

Reportedly, archaeologists h ticed peculiar cut marks on fossilized bones with stone tools. A particular explanation could t be perceived at Qesem as se were never ticed before. reason being, leg bones are long with less meat-bearing areas and re was thing to eat re. This furr increased curiosity of researchers at Tel Aviv University. After morphometrical analysis followed by 3D scanning, authors disclosed that teeth from cavemen from Qesem h huge difference and are yet unkwn. Moreover, cut marks near bone areas were found on 78% of nearly 80,000 animal bone specimens which were analyzed.

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Hominis in Israel

Hominins reportedly arrived in Israel nearly 1.5 million years ago and feasted on elephant over a million years. By time Qesem cave was occupied by m, or animals were gone, and only elephants were available. Moreover, previous research by Barkai also revealed that 300,000 years ago, elephants in Italy were consumed and h ir bone marrow also extracted. However, in that report, marrow was fresh as compared to this one by scientists in Tel Aviv University which was first of its kind discovery, which also revealed that humans preserved re edibles to consume later. 

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