Markings on a fossilized tibia make for a bloody ‘whodunnit’ 1.45 million years in the making.
Pobiner sent molds of these cuts to co-author Michael Pante of Colorado State University to try to figure out if these were actually cut marks. Pante created 3D scans of the molds and then compared the shape of the marks with a database of 898 individual tooth, butchery, and trample marks that were created through controlled experiments., nine of the 11 total marks were positively identified as clear matches for the type of damage inflicted by stone tools.
The bite marks also could have come from one of the three different types ofThe cut marks alone do nor prove that whomever butchered the owner of this leg made a meal out of them, but Pobiner believes that this seems to be the most likely scenario. The markings are located where the calf muscle would have attached to the bone, which is a good place to cut if the assailant’s goal was to remove a chunk of flesh.
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