Norfolk Neandertals butcher Mammoth

In April 2002 archaeologists uncovered evidence of a butchery site, last used somewhere between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago by Neaderthals.

The site at a secret location near Ely has produced eight flint hand axes and more than 100 other pieces of worked flint.

The bones, teeth and tusks of three Mammoths were unearthed .

The task for researchers is to discover wether the hominids were hunting or scavenging the Mammoth corpses. This question of whether the Neandertals hunted large game has long puzzled archaeologists and any clarification will tell us much more than we know at present about their social organisation.

This East Anglian county is knopwn for its Paleolithic finds, including an earlier Mamoth discovered in 1992.

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