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Author : Kevin Thomas Jones
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hunting and Scavenging by Early Hominids written by Kevin Thomas Jones and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin T. Jones
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Hunting and Scavenging by Early Hominids written by Kevin T. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew H. Nitecki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780306428210
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (282 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Human Hunting written by Matthew H. Nitecki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1988-03-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The successful early adaptations of man involve a complex interplay of biological and cultural factors. There is a rapidly growing number of paleontologists and paleoanthropologists who are concerned with hominid foraging and the evolution of hunting. New techniques of paleoanthropology and taphonomy, and new information on human remains are added to the traditional approaches to the study of past human hunting and other foraging behavior. There is also a resurgence of interest in the early peopling of the New World. The present book is the result of the Ninth Annual Spring Systematics 10, 1986, in the Symposium, on the Evolution of Human Hunting, held on May Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. We are grateful to the NSF (grant no. BNS 8519960) for partial financial support in arranging the symposium. In preparation of this volume we have received assistance from many people, particularly the reviewers of individual chapters; it is impossible to name them all. We must however single out Drs. Richard G. Klein and Glen H. Cole for their encouragement at various stages of preparation of the symposium and this volume, and for being a help to the anthropological knowledge. Zbigniew Jastrzebski assisted with the figures and Paul K. Johnson diligently typed the camera-ready copy, and patiently coordinated the endless book-making chores.
Author : Kevin Thomas Jones
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (657 download)
Download or read book Hunting and Scavenging by Early Hominids written by Kevin Thomas Jones and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan E. Dizard
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262368269
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Hunting written by Jan E. Dizard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of hunting, from Stone Age hunter-gatherers to today’s sport hunters. Hunting has a long history, beginning with our hominid ancestors. The invention of the spear allowed early humans to graduate from scavenging to actual hunting. The famous cave paintings at Lascaux show a meticulous knowledge of animal behavior and anatomy that only a hunter would have. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series traces the evolution of hunting, from Stone Age hunting and gathering to today’s regulated sport hunting. Humans have been hunting since we became human—but did hunting make us human? The authors consider and question the “hunting hypothesis of human origins,” noting that according to this theory, “hunting” meant hunting by men. They explore hunting in the Stone Age and how, beginning some ten thousand years ago, the spread of agriculture led to the emergence of empires and attempts by elites to monopolize hunting. They examine the democratization of hunting in the American colonies and how hunters decimated, but then, in the twentieth century, rallied to save game animals from extinction. They describe how some European and postcolonial societies have managed wildlife and hunting, consider the difficulties of living with abundant wildlife—even as many nongame species are disappearing—and trace the implications of the increasing participation of women in hunting for the future of hunting.
Author : Donna Hart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429978715
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Man the Hunted written by Donna Hart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man the Hunted argues that primates, including the earliest members of the human family, have evolved as the prey of any number of predators, including wild cats and dogs, hyenas, snakes, crocodiles, and even birds. The authors' studies of predators on monkeys and apes are supplemented here with the observations of naturalists in the field and revealing interpretations of the fossil record. Eyewitness accounts of the 'man the hunted' drama being played out even now give vivid evidence of its prehistoric significance. This provocative view of human evolution suggests that countless adaptations that have allowed our species to survive (from larger brains to speech), stem from a considerably more vulnerable position on the food chain than we might like to imagine. The myth of early humans as fearless hunters dominating the earth obscures our origins as just one of many species that had to be cautious, depend on other group members, communicate danger, and come to terms with being merely one cog in the complex cycle of life.
Author : Richard Potts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135132926X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Early Hominid Activities at Olduvai written by Richard Potts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest sites at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania are among the best documented and most important for studies of human evolution. This book investigates the behavior of hominids at Olduvai using data of stone tools and animal bones, as well as the results of work in taphonomy (how animals become fossils), the behavior of mammals, and a wide range of ecological theory and data. By illustrating the ways in which modern and prehistoric evidence is used in making interpretations, the author guides the reader through the geological, ecological, and archeological areas involved in the study of humans.Based on his study of the Olduvai excavations, animal life, and stone tools, the author carefully examines conventional views and proposals about the early Olduvai sites. First, the evidence of site geology, tool cut marks, and other clues to the formation of the Olduvai sites are explored. On this basis, the large mammal communities in which early hominids lived are investigated, using methods which compare sites produced mainly by hominids with others made by carnivores. Questions about hominid hunting, scavenging, and the importance of eating meat are then scrutinized. The leading alternative positions on each issue are discussed, providing a basis for understanding some of the most contentious debates in paleo-anthropology today.The dominant interpretive model for the artifact and bone accumulations at Olduvai and other Plio-Pleistocene sites has been that they represent home bases, social foci similar to the campsites of hunter-gatherers. Based on paleo-ecological evidence and ecological models, the author critically analyzes the home base interpretation and proposes alternative views. A new view of the Olduvai sites - that they represent stone caches where hominids processed carcasses for food - is shown to have important implications for our understanding of hominid social behavior and evolution.
Author : Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402061528
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Deconstructing Olduvai: A Taphonomic Study of the Bed I Sites written by Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olduvai Bed I archaeological sites have been at the epicenter of the debate on how early humans behaved. This book presents a new analytical approach that has produced unexpected results: the association of stone tools and faunal remains at most Olduvai Bed I sites is accidental and not related to hominid behavior. This revolutionary analysis shows that current models of reconstruction of human behavior are wrong.
Author : Dan McLerran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320169691
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Popular Archaeology written by Dan McLerran and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special print edition of the Fall 2014 issue of Popular Archaeology Magazine contains compelling accounts of some recent discoveries and developments in the fields of archaeology and anthropology, including discoveries that have changed the face of human evolution, a finding in an underwater cave in the Yucatan Peninsula that tells a story with implications for Native American origins, excavations at the largest ancient Mycenaean site ever discovered, new wall paintings at Angkor Wat, and much more.
Author : Richard Potts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351329278
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Early Hominid Activities at Olduvai written by Richard Potts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earliest sites at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania are among the best documented and most important for studies of human evolution. This book investigates the behavior of hominids at Olduvai using data of stone tools and animal bones, as well as the results of work in taphonomy (how animals become fossils), the behavior of mammals, and a wide range of ecological theory and data. By illustrating the ways in which modern and prehistoric evidence is used in making interpretations, the author guides the reader through the geological, ecological, and archeological areas involved in the study of humans.Based on his study of the Olduvai excavations, animal life, and stone tools, the author carefully examines conventional views and proposals about the early Olduvai sites. First, the evidence of site geology, tool cut marks, and other clues to the formation of the Olduvai sites are explored. On this basis, the large mammal communities in which early hominids lived are investigated, using methods which compare sites produced mainly by hominids with others made by carnivores. Questions about hominid hunting, scavenging, and the importance of eating meat are then scrutinized. The leading alternative positions on each issue are discussed, providing a basis for understanding some of the most contentious debates in paleo-anthropology today.The dominant interpretive model for the artifact and bone accumulations at Olduvai and other Plio-Pleistocene sites has been that they represent home bases, social foci similar to the campsites of hunter-gatherers. Based on paleo-ecological evidence and ecological models, the author critically analyzes the home base interpretation and proposes alternative views. A new view of the Olduvai sites - that they represent stone caches where hominids processed carcasses for food - is shown to have important implications for our understanding of hominid social behavior and evolution.
Author : Robert J. Blumenschine
Publisher : BAR International Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Early Hominid Scavenging Opportunities written by Robert J. Blumenschine and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 1986 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig B. Stanford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195351290
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Meat-Eating and Human Evolution written by Craig B. Stanford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, why, and how early humans began to eat meat are three of the most fundamental unresolved questions in the study of human origins. Before 2.5 million years ago the presence and importance of meat in the hominid diet is unknown. After stone tools appear in the fossil record it seems clear that meat was eaten in increasing quantities, but whether it was obtained through hunting or scavenging remains a topic of intense debate. This book takes a novel and strongly interdisciplinary approach to the role of meat in the early hominid diet, inviting well-known researchers who study the human fossil record, modern hunter-gatherers, and nonhuman primates to contribute chapters to a volume that integrates these three perspectives. Stanford's research has been on the ecology of hunting by wild chimpanzees. Bunn is an archaeologist who has worked on both the fossil record and modern foraging people. This will be a reconsideration of the role of hunting, scavenging, and the uses of meat in light of recent data and modern evolutionary theory. There is currently no other book, nor has there ever been, that occupies the niche this book will create for itself.
Author : Craig B. Stanford
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691222088
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Hunting Apes written by Craig B. Stanford and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes humans unique? What makes us the most successful animal species inhabiting the Earth today? Most scientists agree that the key to our success is the unusually large size of our brains. Our large brains gave us our exceptional thinking capacity and led to humans' other distinctive characteristics, including advanced communication, tool use, and walking on two legs. Or was it the other way around? Did the challenges faced by early humans push the species toward communication, tool use, and walking and, in doing so, drive the evolutionary engine toward a large brain? In this provocative new book, Craig Stanford presents an intriguing alternative to this puzzling question--an alternative grounded in recent, groundbreaking scientific observation. According to Stanford, what made humans unique was meat. Or, rather, the desire for meat, the eating of meat, the hunting of meat, and the sharing of meat. Based on new insights into the behavior of chimps and other great apes, our now extinct human ancestors, and existing hunting and gathering societies, Stanford shows the remarkable role that meat has played in these societies. Perhaps because it provides a highly concentrated source of protein--essential for the development and health of the brain--meat is craved by many primates, including humans. This craving has given meat genuine power--the power to cause males to form hunting parties and organize entire cultures around hunting. And it has given men the power to manipulate and control women in these cultures. Stanford argues that the skills developed and required for successful hunting and especially the sharing of meat spurred the explosion of human brain size over the past 200,000 years. He then turns his attention to the ways meat is shared within primate and human societies to argue that this all-important activity has had profound effects on basic social structures that are still felt today. Sure to spark a lively debate, Stanford's argument takes the form of an extended essay on human origins. The book's small format, helpful illustrations, and moderate tone will appeal to all readers interested in those fundamental questions about what makes us human.
Author : Vicki Cummings
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191025275
Total Pages : 1361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers written by Vicki Cummings and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 1361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities. Chapters provide in-depth archaeological, historical, and anthropological case-studies, and examine far-reaching questions about human social relations, attitudes to technology, ecology, and management of resources and the environment, as well as issues of diet, health, and gender relations - all central topics in hunter-gatherer research, but also themes that have great relevance for modern global society and its future challenges. The Handbook also provides a strategic vision for how the integration of new methods, approaches, and study regions can ensure that future research into the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers will continue to deliver penetrating insights into the factors that underlie all human diversity.
Author : Robert John Blumenschine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Early Hominid Scavenging Opportunities written by Robert John Blumenschine and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean-Jacques Hublin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402096992
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Hominin Diets written by Jean-Jacques Hublin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael P. Richards and Jean-Jacques Hublin The study of hominin diets, and especially how they have (primates, modern humans), (2) faunal and plant studies, (3) evolved throughout time, has long been a core research archaeology and paleoanthropology, and (4) isotopic studies. area in archaeology and paleoanthropology, but it is also This volume therefore presents research articles by most of becoming an important research area in other fields such as these participants that are mainly based on their presentations primatology, nutrition science, and evolutionary medicine. at the symposium. As can hopefully be seen in the volume, Although this is a fundamental research topic, much of the these papers provide important reviews of the current research research continues to be undertaken by specialists and there in these areas, as well as often present new research on dietary is, with some notable exceptions (e. g. , Stanford and Bunn, evolution. 2001; Ungar and Teaford, 2002; Ungar, 2007) relatively lit- In the section on modern studies Hohmann provides a tle interaction with other researchers in other fields. This is review of the diets of non-human primates, including an unfortunate, as recently it has appeared that different lines interesting discussion of the role of food-sharing amongst of evidence are causing similar conclusions about the major these primates. Snodgrass, Leonard, and Roberston provide issues of hominid dietary evolution (i. e.
Author : Robert W. Sussman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351477870
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Origins and Nature of Sociality written by Robert W. Sussman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific developments have increasingly been transforming our understanding of the place of human beings in nature. The contributors to this book focus on the current status of research on sociality and the evolution of cooperative and altruistic behaviour in non-human and human primates. They examine questions related to the evolution, cultural viability, and hormonal underpinnings of human sociality in specific detail, and describe patterns of sociality that shed light on human social behaviour.
