Front and Back View of a Hunting Lesion (IMAGE)

Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz

Front and Back View of a Hunting Lesion

Caption

Front and back view of a hunting lesion in the pelvis of an extinct fallow deer killed by Neandertals 120,000 years ago on a lakeshore close to current-day Halle in Germany.

Credit

© Eduard Pop, MONREPOS Archaeological Research Center and Museum for Human Behavioral Evolution, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Leibniz Research Institute for Archaeology (RGZM)

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This image may only be used in connection with the press release "Neandertals practiced close-range hunting 120,000 years ago", issued by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on July 2, 2018.

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