Can we use chimpanzee behavior to model early hominin hunting?

Stone Tools and Fossil Bones: Debates in the Archaeology of Human Origins

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 174-198

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c Museo de los Origenes   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139149327.008     Document Type: Chapter

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