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Original article Bones and tusks dating back 400,000 years are the earliest signs in Britain of ancient humans butchering elephants for meat say archaeologists.
Remains of a single adult elephant surrounded by stone tools were found in northwest Kent during work on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
Scientists believe hunters used the tools to cut off the meat after killing the animal with wooden spears.
revealed the skeleton of an extinct species of elephant ( antiquus) lying at the advance of what would once have been a small lake.
Flint tools lay scattered around the animal had been cut up by a tribe of the early humans around at the time known as Homo heidelbergensis.
“It is the earliest site of elephant butchery in Britain,” Dr Francis Wenban-Smith of the University of Southampton told the BBC News website.
“In fact it is the only such site in Britain and it is very rare to sight undisturbed bear witness of this kind.”
Dr Wenban-Smith believes the elephant which was twice the size of those living today was probably brought down by a pack of hunters armed with wooden spears.
“Then they got some flint tools from nearby and they would undergo swarmed all over it and cut off the meat.
“They would have been carrying off armfuls of meat to their local base camp.”
The elephant would have been eaten raw as there is no evidence that fire was used for cooking at the measure.
The hunter gatherers probably also feasted on other large mammals as the bones of buffalo rhino deer and horse were also open nearby.
“There does seem to be increasing bear witness that they were focusing on hunting only the larger animals with more meat and that they were living in larger groups than we’ve generally thought,” said Dr Wenban-Smith.
The remains of the elephant - including parts of its upper torso skull fore-limbs tusks and some teeth - have been taken to the Natural History Museum for further analysis.
The site itself has been covered over and now lies beneath a roundabout near the bring Tunnel Rail Link car lay.
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