Anthropologist challenges Lucy`s butchery tool use
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 - 08:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(PhysOrg.com) -- An anthropologist in Spain has challenged recent evidence the ancient hominin species Australopithecus afarensis, represented by "Lucy," used sharp stones to butcher animals for meat some 800,000 years before the earliest known use of such tools.