Comparing apples and oranges in the Plio-Pleistocene: Methodological comments on "Meat-eating by early hominids at the FLK 22 Zinjanthropus site, Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): An experimental approach using cut-mark data"

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 789-792

  Monahan, Christopher M ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cut mark analysis; Experimental taphonomy; FLK Zinjanthropus site; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOMINID; HUMAN; MEAT; METHODOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; REVIEW; TANZANIA;

ANIMALS; FOOD HABITS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MEAT; PALEONTOLOGY; TANZANIA;

EID: 0033228554     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.1999.0320     Document Type: Article

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