Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7308, 2010, Pages 857-860

  McPherron, Shannon P ^a   Alemseged, Zeresenay ^b   Marean, Curtis W ^c   Wynn, Jonathan G ^d   Reed, Denné ^e   Geraads, Denis ^f   Bobe, René ^g   Béarat, Hamdallah A ^h  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^h Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BONE; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOMINID; PALEONTOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIQUITY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; BONE; DIETARY INTAKE; ETHIOPIA; FOSSIL HOMININ; HUMAN; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOOL USE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BOVIDS; DEVICES; DIET; FOOD; FOSSIL; HISTORY; HOMINID; TECHNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; DIET; ETHIOPIA; FOOD; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; MEAT; RUMINANTS; TECHNOLOGY; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

DIKIKA; ETHIOPIA; GONA; HADAR;

ANIMALIA; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 77955613738     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09248     Document Type: Article

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