Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia

By Shannon J. P. McPherron, Z. Alemseged, Curtis W. Marean, J. Wynn, Denné N. Reed, D. Geraads, René Bobe, H. Béarat. Nature, 2010

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Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa (2014, background): “4 million yrs ago (McPherron et al., 2010; but see DomínguezRodrigo et al., 2010) and there is ample evidence for the exploitation of terrestrial prey by ~2.”
Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation (2011, neutral): “4 million [60], years ago, and used them to produce tools of perishable materials (wood, hide) about 2 million years ago.”
The creatine kinase system and pleiotropic effects of creatine (2011, background): “These, the oldest findings of this kind, after careful microscopic examination were identified as being the result of early hominid stone tools used for removing flesh from bones and for retrieving bone marrow (McPherron et al. 2010).”
Taphonomy of ungulate ribs and the consumption of meat and bone by 1.2-million-year-old hominins at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2013, background): “6 McPherron et al. (2010) assert that an even more ancient, w3.”