{"id":322,"date":"2023-02-07T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/?p=322"},"modified":"2023-10-27T05:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T03:09:33","slug":"neanderthals-hunted-giant-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/neanderthals-hunted-giant-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Neanderthals Hunted Giant Elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"as said by... , as published by ...\">According to<\/a> a new <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"piece of work that is written to find out more about a topic\">study<\/a>, Neanderthals, who lived between 500,000 and 40,000 years ago, hunted giant elephants and <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"to kill animals and cut them up to get meat\">butchered<\/a> them for food. The straight-<a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"the pointed teeth that stick out of the mouth of an elephant\">tusked<\/a> elephants were the largest land <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"an animal that drinks milk from its mother when  it is young\">mammals<\/a> of the Ice Age. They were more than 4 metres tall and <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"how heavy something is\">weighed<\/a> 13 tons.  <\/p>\n\n<p>The <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"to study something in order to get more facts about it\">research<\/a> is based on the <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"the structure of all the bones in an animal's body\">skeleton<\/a> <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"what is left over\">remains<\/a> of a giant animal found in an old <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"place from which coal is dug out of the earth\">coal pit<\/a> in Central Germany. <\/p>\n\n<p>The Neanderthals were <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"very good\">excellent<\/a> hunters who knew where to find the elephants as well as the best way to <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"here: to get close so that you can kill them \">attack<\/a> them. They killed the  animals with <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"long pole with a sharp point, used to kill animals\">spears<\/a> and sharp stone <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"objects that you use to do a certain job\">tools<\/a>.  It took many days and a whole group of people to <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"cut\">carve<\/a> out and <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"to save it, so that you can eat it later\">preserve<\/a> meat and fat from such a large elephant.  <\/p>\n\n<p>In most cases, they <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"here: want to attack\">targeted<\/a> male elephants  because they <a href=\"#\/\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\" title=\"wander around\">roamed<\/a> the land alone. They were also larger than females. Such a large elephant produced up to 5 tons of meat, food for a hundred people for a whole month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elephas-antiquus.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elephas-antiquus.jpg 890w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elephas-antiquus-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elephas-antiquus-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Elephas-antiquus-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Illustration of a straight-tusked elephants<\/strong><br><em>Image <\/em>:  <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Elephas-antiquus.jpg\">DFoidl<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\">CC BY 3.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study, Neanderthals, who lived between 500,000 and 40,000 years ago, hunted giant elephants and butchered them for food. The straight-tusked elephants were the largest land mammals of the Ice Age. They were more than 4 metres tall and weighed 13 tons. 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