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Fossils show Tasmanian devils scavenged human camps in WA's Pilbara 45,000 years ago
Bone-mark analysis details tens of thousands of years of devil scavenging
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Sep 20 10:21 AM
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A detailed writeup lays out the evidence: over 8,000 cataloged bones, 1,000-plus showing chew marks, at least ten with devil-consistent tooth pits, and 263 digested bone fragments too large for smaller Pilbara carnivores, spanning deposits from before the Last Glacial Maximum into the Holocene.
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Timothy Churchill Paleontologist and zooarchaeologist, University of New South Wales Gavin Ashburton Researcher, PKKP Aboriginal Corporation PKKP Aboriginal Corporation Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Aboriginal Corporation Rio Tinto Mining company
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Tasmanian devils lived in outback Western Australia for at least 45,000 years Tasmanian devils once lived across much of mainland Australia. New fossil evidence now places these animals in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for the first time. The evidence comes from Juukan 2 rockshelter on Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura Country... More…
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