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A: Boxgrove, Chichester, England, United Kingdom

Evidence of Hunting Horses With Spears In Boxgrove, England

Circa 500000 BCE
Horse shoulder blade or scapula from Boxgrove, England. Circa 500,000 BCE.
Horse shoulder blade or scapula from Boxgrove, England. Circa 500,000 BCE.

A fragment of a horse shoulder blade discovered by a team led by Mark Roberts at Boxgrove, England "contains a semicircular wound made by a weapon such as a spear, indicating it was killed by early humans. Other horse bones from the same site have butchery marks from stone tools." (Smitsonian, What does it mean to be human?)

For many thousands of years before horses were ridden and domesticated people killed horses for food.

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