Hunting the “biggest calorie bombs,

 Hunting the “biggest calorie bombs,

as Dr. Roebroeks calls them, may have required little technological sophistication. “Of course, a Neanderthal hunter would have to know the behavior of these creatures very well, and would have to

 be able to predict their behavior,” he said. “But as long as the hunter could immobilize the elephant by, for example, digging pits or driving them into mud traps, the animal could be theoretically finished off

 with wooden thrusting spears.” Indirect evidence for use of such weapons exists in hunting lesions on the bones of fallow deer exhumed at the site.