Elephants were on the menu for hominins living in Italy 400,000 years ago, and a rare fossil reveals the tools they used, as well as those they got out of the process. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

It’s no secret that our ancestors, and some other branches of the human family tree, liked a big meal. There’s evidence, for example, that Neanderthals hunted Palaeoloxodon antiquus , the straight-tusked elephant, which was much larger than even mammoths or modern elephants. However, they didn’t leave instruction manuals behind, and evidence of the process is patchy at best.

That makes the elephant bones discovered in 2017 at Casal Lumbroso, a suburb of Rome, particularly valuable. It’s among the best-preserved example

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