
The Skeptics Guide #939 - Jul 8 2023
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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Early Pleistocene Cut Marked Hominid Fossil From Kubi for Kenya
Yabbat Dabbachu: Cavemen were butchering and eating each other 1.45 million years ago. The claim that this was a decisive finding of cannibalism is based on cut marks, thin slashes,. 11 in total, that were all angled in the same direction. These were 3D scanned and compared to a database of 898 butchery and tooth marks. Based on the analysis, 9 of the 11 markings were consistent with the kind of damage that a stone tool would make.
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