WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 — Early humans liked termites so much that they made special bone tools to grub out the juicy insects, researchers say. The finding suggests that some of humanity’s earliest ancestors had a diet that was more varied and nutritious than was earlier believed.
“PREVIOUS STUDIES have suggested that modified bones from the Lower Paleolithic (old stone age) sites of Swartkrans and Sterkfontein in South Africa represent the oldest known bone tools and that they were used by Australopithecus robustus to dig up tubers,” Lucinda Backwell of South Africa’s University of the Wi****ersrand and Francesco d’Errico of France’s National Scientific Research Center wrote in their report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“However, our analysis suggests that these tools were used to dig into termite mounds, rather than to dig for tubers.”
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“PREVIOUS STUDIES have suggested that modified bones from the Lower Paleolithic (old stone age) sites of Swartkrans and Sterkfontein in South Africa represent the oldest known bone tools and that they were used by Australopithecus robustus to dig up tubers,” Lucinda Backwell of South Africa’s University of the Wi****ersrand and Francesco d’Errico of France’s National Scientific Research Center wrote in their report, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“However, our analysis suggests that these tools were used to dig into termite mounds, rather than to dig for tubers.”
Want to learn more? http://www.msnbc.com/news/517206.asp
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-Administrator / Owner
"Everything was true. God was an astronaut. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed