Did Lucy eat steak?

• Position: Anthropology - Australopithecus' tools to eat meat - Brief article

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As early as 3.4 million years ago, some individuals with a taste for meat apparently used sharp and heavy stones to butcher two large animals on the shore of a shallow lake in what is now Ethiopia. Scientists say cut marks on a rib and thighbone of two fossilized animals indicate that human ancestors-presumably members of the species best known for the skeleton called Lucy (see photo)might have been using stone tools and eating meat 800,000 years earlier than had been...