The zooarchaeology and paleoecology of early hominin scavenging
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18944827 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Pobiner (0000-0001-5051-9175, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Washington District of Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 68-82 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1538 • E-ISSN: 1520-6505 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/evan.21824 |
| PMID | 32108400 |
| OpenAlex | W3006752585 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 114 |
Questions about the timing, frequency, resource yield, and behavioral and biological implications of large animal carcass acquisition by early hominins have been a part of the “hunting‐scavenging debate” for decades. This article presents a brief outline of this debate, reviews the zooarchaeological and modern ecological evidence for a possible scavenging niche among the earliest animal tissue‐consuming hominins (pre‐2.0 Ma), revisits some of the questions that this debate has generated, and outlines some ways to explore answers to those questions with evidence from the archaeological record
Archaeology · Biology · Environmental ethics · Geography · Niche · Paleoecology · Scavenging · Sociology · Zooarchaeology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Philosophy · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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