Meat-eating & human evolution / edited by Craig B. Stanford and Henry T. Bunn.

Other author Stanford, Craig B. (Craig Britton), 1956-
Other author Bunn, George W., Jr., 1890-1973
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Descriptionxii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Prehistoric peoples--Food.
Fossil hominids.
Meat--History.
Human evolution.

Variant title Meat-eating and human evolution
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 -- The dog-eat-dog world of carnivores: a review of past and present carnivore community dynamics / Blaire Van Valkenburgh -- A 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 -- The 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: and 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 -- The evolutionary consequences of increased carnivory in hominids / Robert A. Foley -- Neonate body size and hominid carnivory / Natalia Vasey, Alan Walker -- Conclusions: research trajectories on hominid meat-eating / Henry T. Bunn, Craig B. Stanford.
Local noteLittle-336534--305131044837$
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 00036745
ISBN0195131398 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN799.F6 N43 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold