Africa: AI Reveals Which Predators Chewed Ancient Humans’ Bones – Challenging Ideas On Which Homo Species Was the First Tool-Using Hunter
Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa. After archaeologists uncovered his fossilized bones in 1960, they used them to define Homo habilis – the earliest known member of our own genus. Paleoanthropologists define the first examples of the…