Cutting marks on fossil bones. Past and present, by Nathalie Richard

During my last stay in Argentina as part of the SciCoMove project, I had the opportunity to visit the collection of fossil bones that Richard Fariña and his team have collected near Montevideo (Fig. 1). Fig. 1 – Paleontological collection of fossil megafauna, Arroyo del Vizcaíno, Uruguay. Among the bones discovered at the Pleistocene site of Arroyo del Vizcaíno, some display incisions whose regular patterns puzzle palaeontologists (Fig. 2) Fig. 2 – Incisions on the rib of a Lestodon (giant f...