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1 online resource (409 pages) |
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Evolutionary Foundations of Human Behavior |
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Evolutionary foundations of human behavior.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Part I. Bed I Olduvai: A Case Study in Paleoanthropological Inference; Chapter 1. Introduction; The Home Base Hypothesis; The Method of Inquiry; Chapter 2. The Sites of Bed I Olduvai Gorge; Ancient Environments; The Study Sites; Part II. Formation of the Olduvai Sites; Chapter 3. Concentrations of Bones and Artifacts; Clustering of Bones on Landscapes; Clustering of Artifacts on Landscapes; Duration of Bone Accumulation; Chapter 4. Physical Agents of Concentration; The Water Transport Hypothesis |
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Nonhominid Accumulation: The Case of Fort TernanChapter 5. Behavioral Agents of Bone Accumulation; Introduction; Porcupines; Leopards; Hyenas; Tooth Marks and Cut Marks; Carnivore Activity at Olduvai; The Role of Hominids; Chapter 6. Conclusions on Olduvai Taphonomy; Discerning Hominid from Carnivore Contributions to Sites; FL K North-6: Butchery Site?; Part III. Hominid Behavior and Paleoecology; Chapter 7. Paleocommunities and Environments of Olduvai; Introduction; Inferring Paleoecology from Faunal Assemblages; Frequencies of Animals in Modern Savannas; Paleoecology of Bed I Olduvai |
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Further Comparisons to Modern SavannasEcological Overlap among Carcass Users; Use of Different Resources; Destruction or Removal of Carcass Parts; Avoiding the Same Sites at the Same Time; Chapter 8. Obtaining Resources and Accumulating Debris; Hunting and Scavenging; Inferences from Bed I Olduvai; Timing of Hominid and Carnivore Access to Carcasses; Diet and Eating Meat; Hunting, Scavenging, and Eating Meat: An Overview; Stone Artifacts: Transport and Accumulation; Overview; Chapter 9. Resource Transport: A Prelude to Home Bases; The Home Base Concept |
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Critique of the Home Base InterpretationAlternatives to the Home Base Hypothesis; The Energetic Effort of Site Production; Resource Transport; Implications of Late Origins of Home Base Behavior; Chapter 10. Conclusion; A Hierarchy of Inferences; Hominid Behavior and Paleoecology at Olduvai; Differences among Researchers; Behavioral Variation in Time and Space; Bibliography; Appendix A: Site DK; Appendix B: Site FLKNN-3; Appendix C: FLKNN- 2; Appendix D: Site FLK-22; Appendix E: Site FL K North-6; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Paleolithic period, Lower -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge
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Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge
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Animal remains (Archaeology)
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Antiquities
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Paleolithic period, Lower
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Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) -- Antiquities
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Tanzania -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85132372
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| Subject |
Tanzania
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Tanzania -- Olduvai Gorge
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351329279 |
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1351329278 |
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