I clicked through to the article. Unlike what you sometimes see with claims of early kill sites, both the tools and the butchery marks here look really good. The cut marks are clear, parallel, repeated, and in the right locations on the bones. The smash marks on the bones have good percussion cones.The chert tools look like they were struck off cores that had flakes taken off systematically. There is a nice quartz core too. The dating is argon isotope plus paleomagnetism plus electron spin resonance, and some of it is on the teeth of the animals themselves, so it’s about as secure as you could ask. The stratigraphy looks undisturbed. I am usually skeptical of these sorts of sites claiming early dates, but this is very convincing.
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