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Robert J. Blumenschine
Researcher at Rutgers University
Publications - 55
Citations - 7311
Robert J. Blumenschine is an academic researcher from Rutgers University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Olduvai Gorge & Oldowan. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 55 publications receiving 6780 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert J. Blumenschine include Tanzania National Parks Authority & University of the Witwatersrand.
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Systematic Butchery by Plio/Pleistocene Hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Henry T. Bunn,Ellen M. Kroll,Stanley H. Ambrose,Anna K. Behrensmeyer,Lewis R. Binford,Robert J. Blumenschine,Richard G. Klein,Henry M. McHenry,Christopher J. O'Brien,John Wymer +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the 1.75-million-year-old faunal assemblage from the FLK Zinjanthropus site at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania was examined and skeletal-part frequencies were used to evaluate hominid access to and differential transport of carcass portions of differing nutritional value.
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Percussion marks, tooth marks, and experimental determinations of the timing of hominid and carnivore access to long bones at FLK Zinjanthropus, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
TL;DR: The results show that the sequence of carnivore and hominid access to long bones, and their respective carcass tissue yields, was more complex, as is consistent with a dominantly passive scavenging mode of carcass acquisition by hominids hypothesized earlier on the basis of skeletal part data and paleoecological considerations.
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Ratio of central nervous system to body metabolism in vertebrates: its constancy and functional basis
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that an optimal functional relationship between the energy requirements of an animal's executor system (muscle metabolism) and its control system (CNS metabolism) was established early in vertebrate evolution.
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Blind tests of inter-analyst correspondence and accuracy in the identification of cut marks, percussion marks and carnivore tooth marks on bone surfaces
TL;DR: In this article, blind tests were conducted to determine the presence or absence of conspicuous and inconspicuous marks with 97% three-way correspondence, and diagnosed marks of known origin to actor and effector with 99% accuracy.
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Percussion marks on bone surfaces as a new diagnostic of hominid behaviour
TL;DR: Percussus marks as mentioned in this paper were produced during experimental breakage of marrow bones, and occur as pits or grooves impressed on a bone's surface by natural protrusions on the granitic hammerstone and anvil used.