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On a bright, late-summer day in north-central Europe around 300,000 years ago, a team of perhaps a couple dozen hunters got into their assigned positions for a big kill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little did they know that remnants of this lethal event would someday contribute to a scientific rethink about the social and intellectual complexity of Stone Age life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the hunters ascended a ridge where they gazed across a vast, marshy grassland below. Trees dotted the landscape and bordered a braided stream leading to a nearby lake.<\/p>\n\n\n