Estimated Impact Angle (IMAGE)

Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz

Estimated Impact Angle

Caption

Estimated impact angle shown in relation to a standing fallow deer for the hunting lesion observed 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

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photo/©: 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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