Deer legs are often overlooked by predatory animals and ignored by scavengers. This works in our favor, since nighttime kills often result in fresh leg bones lying around in the morning. It matters ...

Researchers led by Ran Barkai of Tel Aviv University analyzed marks on more than 80,000 bones from Qesem Cave and found heavy chop marks on the ends of some of fallow deer leg bones.

Chop marks, cortical scars and chip marks on the anterior and posterior surface of deer leg bones from Qesem Cave. Photo by Ruth Blasco “Bone marrow constitutes a significant source of nutrition and ...

Deer bone marrow after six weeks of storage. Credit: Dr. Ruth Blasco/AFTAU. Some 400,000 ... and most of the strange cut marks were found on leg bones known as metapodials.