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Here we're looking at the back of a skull of a child,
這是一個兒童頭蓋骨的枕骨面
probably about ten years old when he died,
這個孩子死時大概10歲
and there are two holes in these bones.
這塊骨頭上有兩個洞
I was so surprised to
令我震驚的是
find that the spacing between those two holes
我發現這兩個洞之間的距離
is matched almost exactly
幾乎完全等于
by the spacing between the lower canines of a fossil leopard
美洲豹下顎化石上兩顆犬齒間的距離
from the same part of the cave.
這塊化石同樣是在這個洞里被發現的
That tells us that this child was killed by a leopard.
這個發現說明 孩子是被美洲豹咬死的
But in more recent parts of the cave,
在洞里離我們年代更近的部分
he's found bones with the marks of stone tools on them -
他發現一些帶有石器痕跡的遺骨
proof that our ancestors were eating meat.
證明了我們祖先有吃肉食
What that indicates to us
這塊遺骨告訴我們
is that people were butchering the meat off this bone
人們曾把肉從骨頭上剝離
and their stone knives went through that meat
他們的石刀穿過皮肉
and contacted this bone surface.
然后與骨頭表面接觸
We also have percussion damage on these bones
這塊骨頭上還存在碰撞產生的損傷
where people broke open the bones
人們曾砸開骨頭
to get out the edible marrow from the inside of those bones.
以獲取骨頭里可以吃的骨髓
