Notched gazelle bones may be the signature of a Paleolithic culture

Enlarge (credit: Tejero et al. 2018) In caves and rock shelters around the Levant, archaeologists keep finding gazelle scapulae (shoulder blades) marked with a series of regular notches. Scientists still aren’t sure what kind of information the enigmatic marks once conveyed or how the bones themselves might have been used or displayed, but they may […]