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Offline Maik

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Ancient elephant
« on: Sunday, 13 September, 2015 @ 04:53:52 »
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Ancient Elephant Skeleton Found in Arcadia, Greece

...preliminary estimations determining it to be from 300,000 to 600,000 B.C.
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/09/11/ancient-elephant-skeleton-found-in-arcadia-greece/

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Re: Ancient elephant
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday, 25 November, 2015 @ 17:23:41 »
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The association of lithic artifacts with the elephant remains, as well as the discovery of cutmarks on elephant bones, indicate that Marathousa 1 is an elephant butchering site. Preliminary results suggest a Middle Pleistocene age (roughly between 300 and 600 thousand years before present). The researchers found stone tools, which the early hunters are likely to have used to cut the meat from the bones. "That makes Megalopolis the only site in the Balkans where we have evidence of an elephant being butchered in the early Paleolithic," says Professor Katerina Harvati.
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-paleolithic-elephant-butchering-site-greece.html

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Re: Ancient elephant
« Reply #2 on: Thursday, 26 November, 2015 @ 12:29:59 »
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The association of lithic artifacts with the elephant remains, as well as the discovery of cutmarks on elephant bones, indicate that Marathousa 1 is an elephant butchering site. Preliminary results suggest a Middle Pleistocene age (roughly between 300 and 600 thousand years before present). The researchers found stone tools, which the early hunters are likely to have used to cut the meat from the bones. "That makes Megalopolis the only site in the Balkans where we have evidence of an elephant being butchered in the early Paleolithic," says Professor Katerina Harvati.
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-paleolithic-elephant-butchering-site-greece.html

As always, Maik, how do you find 'em??!!  :hmm:

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Re: Ancient elephant
« Reply #3 on: Thursday, 26 November, 2015 @ 13:08:20 »
I just dig 'em out from where I find 'em buried away  ;)