Meat-eating & human evolution /

Meat-eating & human evolution / Meat-eating and human evolution edited by Craig B. Stanford and Henry T. Bunn. - Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. - 1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) : illustrations - Human evolution series . - Human evolution series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Deconstructing the Serengeti / Taphonomy of the Swartkrans hominid postcrania and its bearing on issues of meat-eating and fire management / Neandertal hunting and meat-processing in the Near East: evidence from Kebara Cave (Israel) / Modeling the edible landscape / The dog-eat-dog world of carnivores: a review of past and present carnivore community dynamics / A comparison of social meat-foraging by chimpanzees and human foragers / Meat and the early human diet: insights from neotropical primate studies / The other faunivory: primate insectivory and early human diet / Meat-eating by the fourth African ape / Hunting, power scavenging, and butchering by Hadza Foragers and by Plio-Pleistocene Homo / Is meat the hunter's property?: big game, ownership, and explanations of hunting and sharing / Specialized meat-eating in the Holocene: and archaeological case from the frigid tropics of high-altitude Peru / Mutualistic hunting / Intragroup resource transfers: comparative evidence, models, and implications for human evolution / The evolutionary consequences of increased carnivory in hominids / Neonate body size and hominid carnivory / research trajectories on hominid meat-eating / Martha Tappen -- Travis R. Pickering -- John D. Speth, Eitan Tchernov -- Jeanne Sept -- Blaire Van Valkenburgh -- Craig B. Stanford -- Lisa M. Rose -- William C. McGrew -- Margaret J. Schoeninger ... Henry T. Bunn -- Kristen Hawkes -- John W. Rick, Katherine M. Moore -- Michael S. Alvard -- Bruce Winterhalder -- Robert A. Foley -- Natalia Vasey, Alan Walker -- Henry T. Bunn, Craig B. Stanford. [and others] -- Conclusions:

Preface. Forword. Introduction. I MEAT-EATING AND THE FOSSIL RECORD. 1. Deconstructing the Serengeti. 2. Taphonomy of the Swartkrans hominid postcrania and its bearing on issues of meat-eating and fire management. 3. Neanderthal hunting and meat-processing in the Near East: evidence from Kebara Cave (Israel). 4. Modeling the edible landscape. II LIVING NONHUMAN ANALOGS FOR MEAT-EATING. 5. The dog-eat-dog world of carnivores: a review of past and present carnivore community dynamics. 6. Meat and the early human diet: insights from Neotropical primate studies. 7. The other faunivory: primate ins.


English.

9780195351293 (electronic bk.) 0195351290 (electronic bk.) 128083322X 9781280833229 9786610833221 6610833222 (Cloth)

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0195131398 Uk


Prehistoric peoples--Food.
Fossil hominids.
Meat--History.
Human evolution.
Fossils.
Diet--history
Hominidae
Meat--history
Fossils
Homme préhistorique--Alimentation.
Homme fossile.
Viande--Histoire.
Homme--Évolution.
Fossiles.
fossils.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Physical.
Fossil hominids.
Human evolution.
Meat.
Prehistoric peoples--Food.
Fysische antropologie.
Carnivoren.
Evolutietheorie.


Electronic books.
History.

GN799.F6 / M43 2001eb

599.93/8

2001 J-855 QT 11.1 / M484 2001

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