In our study, just published by Nature – Scientific Reports, we present two key findings: the oldest known evidence of the cultural use of a lion skin, featuring aesthetic elements such as deliberately retained claws (dated to 190,000 years ago), and the earliest direct evidence of a large predator being hunted and killed in human history, dated to 48,000 years ago.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42764-0

Press releases

https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/aktuelles-und-publikationen/attempto-online/newsfullview-attempto/article/bereits-der-neandertaler-jagte-hoehlenloewen-und-nutzte-ihre-felle/

https://denkmalpflege.niedersachsen.de/aktuelles/nachrichten/hoehlenloewe-225925.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/science/archaeology-neanderthals-lions-hunting.html

https://www.science.org/content/article/neanderthals-hunted-and-revered-cave-lions