Tropical forager gastrophagy and its implications for extinct hominin diets

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2016, Pages 672-679

  Buck, Laura T ^a,b   Berbesque, J Colette ^c   Wood, Brian M ^d   Stringer, Chris B ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Forager; Gastrophagy; Hadza; Human evolution; Nutritional ecology; Palaeodiet reconstruction; Palaeoethnobotany; Palaeolithic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960812136     PISSN: 2352409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.09.025     Document Type: Article

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