The site also exhibited indications of large animal butchering— a task that would have required a social structure.
"That's not to say that other locations don't have that. However, we haven't been able to show it systematically or robustly until now," he explained.
The researchers also discovered signs of degradation, products from pine trees and fungus, indicating that decaying Magill proposed that we can make further progress by asserting that if we are cooking food within a controlled fire setting, it strongly implies the existence of a social structure and language. He pointed out that the site also exhibited indications of large animal butchering, a task that would have necessitated collaboration.
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