Wade H. Reeser wrote:

>I dont remember specific references and also don't know if this
>idea is currently in vogue but I had read several papers suggesting that
>when people first ate meat is was scavenged.

I used to link to a page where some people took some 1.9 MM year old tools
and used them to cut up a dead elephant. They worked. Tools capable of
actually killing an animal were developed later.

Don.