Slicing meat off a bone with a sharp-edged tool can ... Scientists began to recognize these butchery marks on Early Stone Age fossil assemblages in the 1980s (e.g., Bunn 1981; Potts & Shipman ...

Stone Age people cut up their food with sharpened stones and cooked it on a fire. After a good day’s hunting people could feast on meat. But the next day they had to start finding food again!

The team found scrapers, possibly used by butchers to cut meat and scrape hide ... sometimes called the middle stone age, came between the Paleolithic period, or the old stone age, and the ...