| Description |
xii, 370 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Deconstructing the Serengeti / Martha Tappen -- Taphonomy of the Swartkrans hominid postcrania and its bearing on issues of meat-eating and fire management / Travis R. Pickering -- Neandertal hunting and meat-processing in the Near East : evidence from Kebara Cave (Israel) / John D. Speth, Eitan Tchernov -- Modeling the edible landscape / Jeanne Sept -- Dog-eat-dog world of carnivores : a review of past and present carnivore community dynamics / Blaire Van Valkenburgh -- Comparison of social meat-foraging by chimpanzees and human foragers / Craig B. Stanford -- Meat and the early human diet : insights from neotropical primate studies / Lisa M. Rose -- Other faunivory : primate insectivory and early human diet / William C. McGrew -- Meat-eating by the fourth African ape / Margaret J. Schoeninger ... [et al.] -- Hunting, power scavenging, and butchering by Hadza Foragers and by Plio-Pleistocene Homo / Henry T. Bunn -- Is meat the hunter's property? : big game, ownership, and explanations of hunting and sharing / Kristen Hawkes -- Specialized meat-eating in the Holocene : an archaeological case from the frigid tropics of high-altitude Peru / John W. Rick, Katherine M. Moore -- Mutualistic hunting / Michael S. Alvard -- Intragroup resource transfers : comparative evidence, models, and implications for human evolution / Bruce Winterhalder -- Evolutionary consequences of increased carnivory in hominids / Robert A. Foley -- Neonate body size and hominid carnivory / Natalia Vasey, Alan Walker -- Research trajectories on hominid meat-eating / Henry T. Bunn, Craig B. Stanford. |
| Subject |
Prehistoric peoples -- Food.
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Fossil hominids.
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Meat -- History.
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Human evolution.
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| Added Author |
Stanford, Craig B. (Craig Britton), 1956-
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Bunn, Henry T.
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| Added Title |
Meat-eating and human evolution |
| ISBN |
0195131398 (alk. paper) |
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