Experimental study of cut marks made with rocks unmodified by human flaking and its bearing on claims of ∼3.4-million-year-old butchery evidence from Dikika, Ethiopia

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 205-214

  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

Cut marks; Early hominin carcass foraging; Random striae; Taphonomy; Trampling

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE; DEPOSITION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; TAPHONOMY; TRAMPLING;

DIKIKA; ETHIOPIA;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 82155168274     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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