[email protected] wrote:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/science/huge-300000-year-old-elephant-22062833 elephant in lake died of old age, not of hunting
Scavenging was probably very common as well.
I remember how there was a very old mammoth found in Siberia, older
than we might expect for humans to be tramping around, and it showed
signs of being partially butchered. I suggested that humans ran
across it 10,000 years after it died -- maybe longer -- and though it might
be a recent death, given it's state of preservations, and decided to make
a meal of it... probably not very successfully.
This is also why when people go off about a mammoth kill site I always
ask how they know they killed it, and didn't just butcher it?
Seems to me that if you're a human and you come across what looks like
a dead animal, especially a dangerous one, you lay into it with your
spears! You want to make sure that bugger isn't going to wake up and
do a pounding of your little Hss head into the dirt...
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