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Cut marks on adult bone show the cannibalism at Gran Dolina 850,000 years ago was not limited to children and adolescents, and 24 new Homo antecessor fossils raise the minimum number of individuals in the Aurora layer to between 13 and 15
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In that paper, in the Journal of Human Evolution, Palmira Saladé and colleagues reported a minimum of 11 individuals from level TD6.
The age breakdown was lopsided: six children, four of them younger than five, three individuals between 10 and 15, and two young adults.
What that paper never did was attribute a single cut mark, percussion scar or peeling fracture to an adult specimen.
The discovery of more adult individuals, some of whom also bear cut marks, demonstrates that cannibalism was not restricted to younger individuals.”
In July 2025 the institute announced a child’s cervical vertebra from the same level, bearing cut marks it read as deliberate decapitation.