article_snippet.sent: Dr Neil Roach, a palaeoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York who led the study said that the tracks represent groups hunting for antelope or wildebeest.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking to Nature, Dr Neil Roach Dr Neil Roach said: 'What we can say is that we have a number of individuals, probably males, that are moving across a lake shore in a way that is consistent with how carnivores move.
article_snippet.sent: The researchers, who presented their findings at the annual meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society in San Francisco, hope to test The researchers, who presented their findings at the annual meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society in San Francisco conclusions by studying the movement patterns of modern day subsistence hunters in Africa.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Roach said: 'There’s starting to be a consensus that around 2 million years ago we see more carnivory that has to do with hunting.'
article_snippet.sent: Curtis Marean, a palaeoanthropologist at Arizona State University in Tempe told Nature: 'Nature could be a group hunt, but Nature could also be lake shore foraging.'