Charles R Peters
Biographic Data
| ID | 86657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles R Peters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles R |
| FAMILY NAME | Peters |
| SIGNATURE | PETERS C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 471 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Theoretical and Actualistic Ecobotanical Perspectives on Early Hominin Diets and Paleoecology
Diet is one direct link between an animal and the multiple environments that it is surrounded by and in part creates (Andrewartha and Birch, 1984; Kuchka, 2001). It is reasonable to assume that the early hominin priority web for resources included potable water, plant foods, arboreal refuge, animal foods, and tool materials in a contingency hierarchy of critical functions (Peters and Blumenschine 1995, 1996). Ecobotanical perspectives are relevan…
Africa's wild C4 plant foods and possible early hominid diets
Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid Land Use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Excavation in the previously little-explored western portion of Olduvai Gorge indicates that hominid land use of the eastern paleobasin extended at least episodically to the west. Finds included a dentally complete Homo maxilla (OH 65) with lower face, Oldowan stone artifacts, and butchery-marked bones dated to be between 1.84 and 1.79 million years old. The hominid shows strong affinities to the KNM ER 1470 cranium from Kenya ( Homo rudolfensis …
Wild fruit trees and shrubs of Southern Africa
Archaeological predictions for hominid land use in the paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania, during lowermost Bed II times
Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution
Part I: Palaeoanthropology.1. Photogallery of Fossil Skulls.2. An Outline of Human Phylogeny. (Bernard Campbell)3. Evolutionary Trees of Apes and Humans From DNA Sequences. (Peter J. Waddell and David Penny)4. Evolution of The Human Brain. (Ralph Holloway)5. Evolution of The Hand and Bipedality. (Mary Marzke)Part II: Social and Socio-Cultural Systems.6. Primate Communication, Lies, and Ideas. (Alison Jolly)7. Social Relations, Human Ecology, and …
Skeletal Inventories from Wildebeest Drownings at Lakes Masek and Ndutu in the Serengeti Ecosystem of Tanzania
Landscape perspectives on possible land use patterns for Early Pleistocene hominids in the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania
Seed‐breaking forces exerted by orang‐utans with their teeth in captivity and a new technique for estimating forces produced in the Wild
Orang‐utans ( Pongo pygmaeus ) at the Singapore Zoological Gardens were presented with two thick‐shelled edible seeds, Mezzettia parviflora (Annonaceae) and Macadamia ternifolia (Proteaceae) in order to estimate their maximum bite forces. The orang‐utans could break the Macadamia seeds in one bite, while those of Mezzettia required repeated attempts. Examination of shell fragments showed that many had scratches and some had clear, but small (ca. …
Shell strength and primate seed predation of nontoxic species in eastern and southern Africa
Hypertrophy of the acetabulo‐cristal buttress in Homo sapiens
In the early 1970s, excavation at the King site, a contact period Mississippian village in northwest Georgia, yielded the skeletal remains of a robust male (King 65) possessing marked hypertrophy of the acetabulo‐cristal buttress. The buttress is morphologically similar to that of Plio‐Pleistocene Homo but it is accompanied by an anatomically modern degree of thickening of the gluteal table of the ilium. Although the degree of cortical thickness …
Hominid Use of Fire in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene
Ricinodendron rautanenii (Euphorbiaceae)
Nut‐like oil seeds
The hypothetical hyperrobust australopithecine gnathic nutcracker adaptation is reexamined in light of ecobotanical information on edible wild nuts provided by the flora of tropical and subtropical Africa. The nut producing species are tree‐forms. Those of the forest region do not as a rule produce fruits with edible mesocarps. In contrast, the woodland savanna species (particularly in the Zambezian region) characteristically provide an important…
Plant types and seasonality of wild-plant foods, Tanzania to Southwestern Africa
On Hominid Diet before Fire
Electron‐optical microscopic study of incipient dental microdamage from experimental seed and bone crushing
No living analogue exists for the hypothetical early hominid hard/tough‐seed, coarse‐root‐eating, and bone‐crushing masticatory adaptation. To investigate possible microdamage/microwear to dental enamel caused by such usage, puncture‐crushing experiments were carried out on single human teeth, using an Instron compression apparatus on the following six test materials: Makapansgat Limeworks chert (e.g., taphonomy), fresh steer longbone, mongongo n…
On Early Hominid Plant-Food Niches
The Early Hominid Plant-Food Niche
African plant-food genera exploited by Homo, Pan, and Papio have been catalogued and analyzed to provide an estimation of the size and composition of the fundamental plant-food niche of the early hominids. Results to date include recognition of more than 100 widely distributed African plant genera which are the best known candidates for plant-food exploitation by the Plio/Pleistocene hominids of eastern and southern Africa. An analysis of staples…
Wild plant foods of the Makapansgat area
Illuminance preferences of nocturnal primates
Toward an Ecological Model of African Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Adaptations
What was the environmental complex in which the Plio-Pleistocene hominids were evolving? What situations selected f o r increasing variation in hominid morphology? A n ap-preciation of ecological dynamics is important to develop answers to those questions. The circumstances that accompany periodically more severe semiarid successions appear to have promoted a shqt in early australopithecine morphology toward hyper-robust forms. Successional dynam…
Why Chimps Can Read
Primate locomotor pattern repetitions, program clocks, and orientation to light
Evolution of the Capacity for Language
Archaeological predictions for hominid land use in the paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania, during lowermost Bed II times
Landscape perspectives on possible land use patterns for Early Pleistocene hominids in the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania
Nut‐like oil seeds
The hypothetical hyperrobust australopithecine gnathic nutcracker adaptation is reexamined in light of ecobotanical information on edible wild nuts provided by the flora of tropical and subtropical Africa. The nut producing species are tree‐forms. Those of the forest region do not as a rule produce fruits with edible mesocarps. In contrast, the woodland savanna species (particularly in the Zambezian region) characteristically provide an important…
The Early Hominid Plant-Food Niche
African plant-food genera exploited by Homo, Pan, and Papio have been catalogued and analyzed to provide an estimation of the size and composition of the fundamental plant-food niche of the early hominids. Results to date include recognition of more than 100 widely distributed African plant genera which are the best known candidates for plant-food exploitation by the Plio/Pleistocene hominids of eastern and southern Africa. An analysis of staples…
Seed‐breaking forces exerted by orang‐utans with their teeth in captivity and a new technique for estimating forces produced in the Wild
Orang‐utans ( Pongo pygmaeus ) at the Singapore Zoological Gardens were presented with two thick‐shelled edible seeds, Mezzettia parviflora (Annonaceae) and Macadamia ternifolia (Proteaceae) in order to estimate their maximum bite forces. The orang‐utans could break the Macadamia seeds in one bite, while those of Mezzettia required repeated attempts. Examination of shell fragments showed that many had scratches and some had clear, but small (ca. …
Africa's wild C4 plant foods and possible early hominid diets
Electron‐optical microscopic study of incipient dental microdamage from experimental seed and bone crushing
No living analogue exists for the hypothetical early hominid hard/tough‐seed, coarse‐root‐eating, and bone‐crushing masticatory adaptation. To investigate possible microdamage/microwear to dental enamel caused by such usage, puncture‐crushing experiments were carried out on single human teeth, using an Instron compression apparatus on the following six test materials: Makapansgat Limeworks chert (e.g., taphonomy), fresh steer longbone, mongongo n…
Wild plant foods of the Makapansgat area
Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution
Part I: Palaeoanthropology.1. Photogallery of Fossil Skulls.2. An Outline of Human Phylogeny. (Bernard Campbell)3. Evolutionary Trees of Apes and Humans From DNA Sequences. (Peter J. Waddell and David Penny)4. Evolution of The Human Brain. (Ralph Holloway)5. Evolution of The Hand and Bipedality. (Mary Marzke)Part II: Social and Socio-Cultural Systems.6. Primate Communication, Lies, and Ideas. (Alison Jolly)7. Social Relations, Human Ecology, and …
Toward an Ecological Model of African Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Adaptations
What was the environmental complex in which the Plio-Pleistocene hominids were evolving? What situations selected f o r increasing variation in hominid morphology? A n ap-preciation of ecological dynamics is important to develop answers to those questions. The circumstances that accompany periodically more severe semiarid successions appear to have promoted a shqt in early australopithecine morphology toward hyper-robust forms. Successional dynam…
Skeletal Inventories from Wildebeest Drownings at Lakes Masek and Ndutu in the Serengeti Ecosystem of Tanzania
Plant types and seasonality of wild-plant foods, Tanzania to Southwestern Africa
On Early Hominid Plant-Food Niches
Shell strength and primate seed predation of nontoxic species in eastern and southern Africa
Ricinodendron rautanenii (Euphorbiaceae)
On Hominid Diet before Fire
Evolution of the Capacity for Language
Hypertrophy of the acetabulo‐cristal buttress in Homo sapiens
In the early 1970s, excavation at the King site, a contact period Mississippian village in northwest Georgia, yielded the skeletal remains of a robust male (King 65) possessing marked hypertrophy of the acetabulo‐cristal buttress. The buttress is morphologically similar to that of Plio‐Pleistocene Homo but it is accompanied by an anatomically modern degree of thickening of the gluteal table of the ilium. Although the degree of cortical thickness …
Evolution of the Capacity for Language
Primate locomotor pattern repetitions, program clocks, and orientation to light
Why Chimps Can Read
Illuminance preferences of nocturnal primates
Toward an Ecological Model of African Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Adaptations
What was the environmental complex in which the Plio-Pleistocene hominids were evolving? What situations selected f o r increasing variation in hominid morphology? A n ap-preciation of ecological dynamics is important to develop answers to those questions. The circumstances that accompany periodically more severe semiarid successions appear to have promoted a shqt in early australopithecine morphology toward hyper-robust forms. Successional dynam…
The Early Hominid Plant-Food Niche
African plant-food genera exploited by Homo, Pan, and Papio have been catalogued and analyzed to provide an estimation of the size and composition of the fundamental plant-food niche of the early hominids. Results to date include recognition of more than 100 widely distributed African plant genera which are the best known candidates for plant-food exploitation by the Plio/Pleistocene hominids of eastern and southern Africa. An analysis of staples…
Wild plant foods of the Makapansgat area
Electron‐optical microscopic study of incipient dental microdamage from experimental seed and bone crushing
No living analogue exists for the hypothetical early hominid hard/tough‐seed, coarse‐root‐eating, and bone‐crushing masticatory adaptation. To investigate possible microdamage/microwear to dental enamel caused by such usage, puncture‐crushing experiments were carried out on single human teeth, using an Instron compression apparatus on the following six test materials: Makapansgat Limeworks chert (e.g., taphonomy), fresh steer longbone, mongongo n…
On Early Hominid Plant-Food Niches
Plant types and seasonality of wild-plant foods, Tanzania to Southwestern Africa
On Hominid Diet before Fire
Ricinodendron rautanenii (Euphorbiaceae)
Nut‐like oil seeds
The hypothetical hyperrobust australopithecine gnathic nutcracker adaptation is reexamined in light of ecobotanical information on edible wild nuts provided by the flora of tropical and subtropical Africa. The nut producing species are tree‐forms. Those of the forest region do not as a rule produce fruits with edible mesocarps. In contrast, the woodland savanna species (particularly in the Zambezian region) characteristically provide an important…
Hominid Use of Fire in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene
Shell strength and primate seed predation of nontoxic species in eastern and southern Africa
Hypertrophy of the acetabulo‐cristal buttress in Homo sapiens
In the early 1970s, excavation at the King site, a contact period Mississippian village in northwest Georgia, yielded the skeletal remains of a robust male (King 65) possessing marked hypertrophy of the acetabulo‐cristal buttress. The buttress is morphologically similar to that of Plio‐Pleistocene Homo but it is accompanied by an anatomically modern degree of thickening of the gluteal table of the ilium. Although the degree of cortical thickness …
Seed‐breaking forces exerted by orang‐utans with their teeth in captivity and a new technique for estimating forces produced in the Wild
Orang‐utans ( Pongo pygmaeus ) at the Singapore Zoological Gardens were presented with two thick‐shelled edible seeds, Mezzettia parviflora (Annonaceae) and Macadamia ternifolia (Proteaceae) in order to estimate their maximum bite forces. The orang‐utans could break the Macadamia seeds in one bite, while those of Mezzettia required repeated attempts. Examination of shell fragments showed that many had scratches and some had clear, but small (ca. …
Skeletal Inventories from Wildebeest Drownings at Lakes Masek and Ndutu in the Serengeti Ecosystem of Tanzania
Landscape perspectives on possible land use patterns for Early Pleistocene hominids in the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania
Wild fruit trees and shrubs of Southern Africa
Archaeological predictions for hominid land use in the paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania, during lowermost Bed II times
Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution
Part I: Palaeoanthropology.1. Photogallery of Fossil Skulls.2. An Outline of Human Phylogeny. (Bernard Campbell)3. Evolutionary Trees of Apes and Humans From DNA Sequences. (Peter J. Waddell and David Penny)4. Evolution of The Human Brain. (Ralph Holloway)5. Evolution of The Hand and Bipedality. (Mary Marzke)Part II: Social and Socio-Cultural Systems.6. Primate Communication, Lies, and Ideas. (Alison Jolly)7. Social Relations, Human Ecology, and …
Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid Land Use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Excavation in the previously little-explored western portion of Olduvai Gorge indicates that hominid land use of the eastern paleobasin extended at least episodically to the west. Finds included a dentally complete Homo maxilla (OH 65) with lower face, Oldowan stone artifacts, and butchery-marked bones dated to be between 1.84 and 1.79 million years old. The hominid shows strong affinities to the KNM ER 1470 cranium from Kenya ( Homo rudolfensis …
Africa's wild C4 plant foods and possible early hominid diets
Theoretical and Actualistic Ecobotanical Perspectives on Early Hominin Diets and Paleoecology
Diet is one direct link between an animal and the multiple environments that it is surrounded by and in part creates (Andrewartha and Birch, 1984; Kuchka, 2001). It is reasonable to assume that the early hominin priority web for resources included potable water, plant foods, arboreal refuge, animal foods, and tool materials in a contingency hierarchy of critical functions (Peters and Blumenschine 1995, 1996). Ecobotanical perspectives are relevan…
Biology (18 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (14 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (13 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Pleistocene (6 works) · African Botany and Ecology Studies (4 works)