300,000-Year-Old Elephant Butchery Sheds Light on Early Hominin Behavior

The discovery of elephant fossils and tools in India offers a rare glimpse into the lives of ancient hominins and extinct megafauna.

A Remarkable Discovery

In the late Middle Pleistocene, approximately 300,000 to 400,000 years ago, early hominins in the Kashmir Valley encountered the massive Palaeoloxodon, an extinct genus of elephants. A groundbreaking study reveals how these hominins utilized tools to extract marrow from the remains of these prehistoric giants, marking the earliest …