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500,000-Year-Old 'Swiss Army Knife' Sheds Light On Ancient Butchery
Sunday, March 22, 2015 20:17
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A set of half-a-million-year-old stone tools — including what's being called a prehistoric “swiss army knife” — have scientists going gaga.
The tools were found alongside the remains of butchered animals, such as an elephant rib bone bearing cut marks (see photo above), at a dig site in Revadimin, Israel in 2004.
Now, researchers who recently analyzed the finds have discovered the tools are covered in animal fat, and are calling them the first direct evidence of the use of stone tools by ancient human ancestors for animal butchery …. http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/03/500000-year-old-swiss-army-knife-sheds.html
It is interesting that they are calling the find a Swiss Army knife when Switzerland and the Swiss have only been around about 15 thousand years. So who would have inhabited that region 500,000 years ago when the only humans were African? Hint the answer is in the question!