Butchered bird bones put humans in Madagascar 10,500 years ago

Author: Bruce Bower / Source: Science News

elephant bird illustration and leg bones — BACK IN TIME Researchers say people reached Madagascar at least 10,500 years ago and began hunting now-extinct elephant birds, depicted at left. Two leg bones of elephant birds, right, display damage inflicted by meat-seeking humans.

Humans made their mark on Madagascar around 6,000 years earlier than previously thought, scientists say.

Those early migrants hunted massive, flightless birds once native to the island off southeast Africa, leaving butchery marks on the bird bones that enabled the new timeline.

Cuts and fractures on three previously unearthed leg and foot bones from one of Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds resulted from the animal being killed and cut up with stone tools…

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