Learn more about the archaeological discovery of an ancient elephant carcass surrounded by hundreds of butchery tools.

Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?

During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now ...

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the ...

New Italian site finds show early humans ~400,000 years ago skillfully used elephant bones to make tools, not just for food.

New research has revealed how early humans living in what is now Rome skillfully butchered elephants for food and then ...

One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank of a small stream near the coast of what is now ...

The authors of a study of the specimen conclude the elephant was butchered using small stones, as indicated by both the ...

During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat ...

Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing ...

During warmer periods of the Middle Pleistocene, ancient humans in Italy were in the habit of butchering elephants for meat and raw materials, according to a study published October 8, 2025 in the ...