Testing meat-eating in early hominids: An analysis of butchery marks on defleshed carcases

Human Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 169-182

  Dominguez Rodrigo M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cut marks upper lower limb bones; Lions; Meat eating; Mid shaft; Proximal distal shafts

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EATING HABIT; FOOD PREFERENCE; MEAT; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FELIDAE; HOMINIDAE;

EID: 0031389905     PISSN: 03939375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02438066     Document Type: Article

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