BBC News - Gazelles caught in ancient Syrian 'killing zones'
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC NewsIt was slaughter on a huge scale.
Hundreds of migrating gazelles would be funnelled into enclosures where they could be butchered en masse.
This was the practice of communities living some 6,000 years ago in what is now north-eastern Syria.
Archaeologists say they have unearthed the remains of animals forced into these killing zones.
"It is manifest that these remains are from a catastrophic hunting episode - a full herd was killed" [...]
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