http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5128892.stm I wonder if they were .458 caliber spears ? And they didn't cook the meat ,is this where the rumours of poor British food started . Anyway it's interesting to contemplate hunting a huge animal with spears !

Determined bunch!

400.000 years...can that be correct or is it a misprint ? That´s a heck of a long time ago.
Last Ice age was done approx 10 to 12.000 years ago, so these guys butchering the Ele didn´t do much hunting equipment development in the years between the hunt and the last Ice age.

Must be mis-print,
Humans only left africa 250,000 years ago and didn't make it to europe until 40,000 years ago.

I think someone got a bit slap-happy with the '0' button

Read the spots, kiddies, read the spots. The elephant hunters were not our species H. sapiens but an earlier one H. heidelbergensis the probable ancestor to H. neanderthalensis.

My bad....

H. heidelbergensis were around 4-500,000 years ago and being nicknamed 'Goliath' (due to their larger than average size probably would have taken Ol' nelly quite happily.