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		onlypassingthru on July 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Happened to Ancient Megafauna? Once humans figured out how to cook meat over a fire, it probably didn't take too long to figure out how to preserve meat using smoke and less heat.

panick21_ on July 17, 2024 [–]

Butchering and elephant and cutting down enough wood without steel or iron seem pretty hard. But I guess if you have enough people you can do it.

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