The endurance running hypothesis and hunting and scavenging in savanna-woodlands

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 434-438

  Pickering, Travis Rayne ^a,b   Bunn, Henry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Carcass foraging; Early Homo; Tracking; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOMINID; HUNTING; SAVANNA; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); WOODLAND;

ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HOMINID; NOTE; RUNNING;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; HOMINIDAE; RUNNING;

EID: 34548528325     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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