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Due to effective tools, larger body size, and metabolic demands of the brain associated with H. erectus, most researchers postulate that, by the time H. erectus had evolved, meat constituted an important part of the human diet. Hunting habits in H. erectus still are unclear; researchers think that individuals in the species still were scavenging but, also, caught small animals and fish. Some sites, such as in Torralba and Ambrona in Spain, show evidence of large-game hunting by controlling stampedes. These sites reveal evidence that a stampede of large, elephant-like animals was forced off a cliff. Hunting like this produced large amounts of meat that could be shared by many members of the group. An abundance of Acheulean tools littering in the sites shows that butchering of animals was performed on site and smaller, more manageable pieces of meat and bones or other animal materials were carried away.

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