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Title

The evolution of hominin diets : integrating approaches to the study of Palaeolithic subsistence / edited by Jean-Jacques Hublin and Michael P. Richards.

Publication

[Dordrecht] : Springer, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors

• Hublin, Jean-Jacques.
• Richards, Michael P. (Michael Phillip)

Description

xiv, 264 pages : illustrations, maps; 29 cm.

Series Statement

• Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series
• Max Planck Institute subseries in human evolution

Uniform Title

• Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology.
• Max Planck Institute subseries in human evolution.

Subjects

• Hominidae
• Human evolution
• Paleolithic period
• Diet
• Nutritional anthropology
• Prehistoric peoples > Food
• Fossil hominids

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The diets of non-human primates : frugivory, food processing, and food sharing / Gottfried Hohmann -- The energetics of encephalization in early hominids / J. Josh Snodgrass, William R. Leonard, and Marcia L. Robertson -- Meals versus snacks and the human dentition and diet during the Paleolithic / Peter William Lucas, ... [et al.] -- Modern human physiology with respect to evolutionary adaptations that relate to diet in the past / Staffan Lindeberg -- Hunting and hunting weapons of the Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe / Paola Villa and Michel Lenoir -- Neanderthal and modern human diet in Eastern Europe / John F. Hoffecker -- Hominin subsistence patterns during the Middle and Late Paleolithic in northwestern Europe / Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser and Laura Niven -- Late Pleistocene subsistence strategies and resource intensification in Africa / Teresa E. Steele and Richard G. Klein -- Seasonal patterns of prey acquisition and inter-group competition during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic of the southern Caucasus / Daniel S. Adler and Guy Bar-Oz -- Epipaleolithic subsistence intensification in the southern Levant : the faunal evidence / Natalie Munro -- Paleolithic diet and the division of labor in Mediterranean Eurasia / Mary C. Stiner and Steven L. Kuhn -- Moving north : achaeobotanical evidence for plant diet in Middle and Upper Paleolithic Europe / Martin Jones -- Diet in early hominin species : a paleoenvironmental perspective / Zeresenay Alemseged and René Bobe -- The impace of projectile weaponry on Late Pleistocene hominin evolution / John J. Shea -- The evolution of the human capacity for "killing at a distance" : the human fossil evidence for the evolution of projectile weaponry / Steven E. Churchill and Jill A. Rhodes -- An energetics perspective on the Neandertal record / Katharine Macdonald, Wil Roebroeks, and Alexander Verpoorte -- [Delta-13]C values reflect aspects of primate ecology in addition to diet / Margaret J. Schoeninger -- Increased dietary breadth in early hominin evolution : revisiting arguments and evidence with a focus on biogeochemical contributions / Matt Sponheimer and Darna L. Dufour -- Neanderthal dietary habits : review of the isotopic evidence / Hervé Bocherens -- Stable isotope evidence for European Upper Paleolithic human diets / Michael P. Richards

ISBN

• 9781402096983
• 1402096984
• 1402096992 (ebk.)
• 9781402096990 (ebk.)

LCCN

99934508088

OCLC

• ocn297148366
• 297148366
• SCSB-5484122

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries