Configurational approach to identifying the earliest hominin butchers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 49, 2010, Pages 20929-20934

  Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel ^a,b   Pickering, Travis Rayne ^c,d   Bunn, Henry T ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Museo de los Origenes   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Abrasion; Cut marks; Equifinality; Hammerstone percussion; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARNIVORE; ETHIOPIA; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAPHONOMY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; TOOL USE BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFARENSIS;

EID: 78650431002     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1013711107     Document Type: Article

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