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Early hominid hunting, butchering, and carcass-processing behaviors: Approaches to the fossil record
Pat Shipman,Jennie J. Rose +1 more
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Different criteria currently used as evidence of hominid involvement with ancient bones are reviewed and it is concluded that the presence of cutmarks, verified by scanning electron microscope (SEM) inspection, is the most reliable.About:
This article is published in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.The article was published on 1983-03-01. It has received 480 citations till now.read more
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Taphonomic and Ecologic Information Form Bone Weathering
TL;DR: In this article, a categorization of weathering characteristics into six stages, recognizable on descriptive criteria, provides a basis for investigation of the weathering rates and processes of recent mammals in the Amboseli Basin.
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The Raw and the Stolen. Cooking and the Ecology of Human Origins.
TL;DR: It is suggested that cooking was responsible for the evolution of the unusual human social system in which pair bonds are embedded within multifemale, multimale communities and supported by strong mutual and frequently conflicting sexual interest.
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Stable isotope analyses in human nutritional ecology
TL;DR: This work presents one method based on stable isotope analysis in human tissues and discusses its contributions, and discusses several potential sources of variation including sex, age, nutritional status, among others.
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Bone surface modifications in zooarchaeology
TL;DR: The current status of bone surface modification studies is assessed with regard to such issues as the need for greater analytical standardization, the selection of instruments for examining bone specimens, tactics for identifying the origins of marks on bones, and strategies for inferring human behaviors.
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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.
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Taphonomic and Ecologic Information Form Bone Weathering
TL;DR: In this article, a categorization of weathering characteristics into six stages, recognizable on descriptive criteria, provides a basis for investigation of the weathering rates and processes of recent mammals in the Amboseli Basin.
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Taphonomic and ecologic information from bone weathering
TL;DR: In this paper, a categorization of weathering characteristics into six stages, recognizable on descriptive criteria, provides a basis for investigation of the weathering rates and processes of recent mammals in the Amboseli Basin.
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Man the Hunter
Richard B. Lee,Irven DeVore +1 more
TL;DR: Man the Hunter as discussed by the authors is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world, which is a necessary background to broader discussions with archaeologists, biologists, and students of human evolution.
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The Hunters or the Hunted?: An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy
TL;DR: The Hunters or the Hunted? is a very important book for paleo-anthropology as discussed by the authors, which presents the first thorough analysis of the Sterkfontein Valley assemblages, contributes significantly to the resolution of lingering controversies and, by placing the old information in a fresh perspective, enables new and more sophisticated questions to be asked not only of the South African material but of similar assembls elsewhere.