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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785071703321

Titolo

Meat-eating & human evolution [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Craig B. Stanford & Henry T. Bunn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

0-19-771462-5

1-280-83322-X

0-19-535129-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (383 p.)

Collana

The human evolution series

Altri autori (Persone)

BunnHenry Thomas

StanfordCraig B <1956-> (Craig Britton)

Disciplina

599.938

Soggetti

Fossil hominids

Human evolution

Meat - History

Prehistoric peoples - Food

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; I. Meat-Eating and the Fossil Record; II. Living Nonhuman Analogs for Meat-Eating; III. Modern Human Foragers; IV. Theoretical Considerations; Conclusions: Research Trajectories on Hominid Meat-Eating; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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