Research Catalog

Title

The evolution of human hunting / edited by Matthew H. Nitecki and Doris V. Nitecki.

Author

Spring Systematics Symposium (9th : 1986 : Chicago, Ill.)

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, ©1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Nitecki, Matthew H.
• Nitecki, Doris V.

Description

viii, 464 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

The successful early adaptations of man involve a complex interplay of biological and cultural factors. There is a rapidly growing number of paleontologists and paleoanthropologists who are concerned with hominid foraging and the evolution of hunting. New techniques of paleoanthropology and taphonomy, and new information on human remains are added to the traditional approaches to the study of past human hunting and other foraging behavior. There is also a resurgence of interest in the early peopling of the New World. The present book is the result of the Ninth Annual Spring Systematics 10, 1986, in the Symposium, on the Evolution of Human Hunting, held on May Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. We are grateful to the NSF (grant no. BNS 8519960) for partial financial support in arranging the symposium. In preparation of this volume we have received assistance from many people, particularly the reviewers of individual chapters; it is impossible to name them all. We must however single out Drs. Richard G. Klein and Glen H. Cole for their encouragement at various stages of preparation of the symposium and this volume, and for being a help to the anthropological knowledge. Zbigniew Jastrzebski assisted with the figures and Paul K. Johnson diligently typed the camera-ready copy, and patiently coordinated the endless book-making chores.

Subject

• Hunting, Prehistoric > Congresses
• Paleolithic period > Congresses
• Paleo-Indians > Hunting > Congresses
• Chasse préhistorique > Congrès
• Peuples autochtones du paléolithique > Chasse > Congrès
• 15.40 prehistory
• Hunting, Prehistoric
• Paleo-Indians > Hunting
• Paleolithic period
• Jacht
• Paleolithicum
• Hunting
• 11030 prehistoric man 21030 hunting behaviour 21030 archaeological investigation

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)

Note

• "Proceedings of the Field Museum of Natural History Ninth Annual Spring Systematics Symposium on the Evolution of Human Hunting, held May 10, 1986, in Chicago, Illinois"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

The idea of human hunting / Matthew H. Nitecki -- Reconstructing how early people exploited animals : problems and prospects / Richard G. Klein -- Were there elephant hunters at Torralba? / Lewis R. Binford -- Bodies, brawn, brains and noses : human ancestors and human predation / Erik Trinkaus -- Hunting in late Upper Paleolithic Western Europe / Lawrence Guy Straus -- Prehistoric, plains-mountain, large-mammal, communal hunting strategies / George C. Frison -- Analysis of kill-butchery bonebeds and interpretation of Paleoindian hunting / Lawrence C. Todd -- The Pleistocene archaeology of Beringia / Richard E. Morlan -- Mastodont procurement by Paleoindians of the Great Lakes region : hunting or scavenging? / Daniel C. Fisher -- Taphonomy and hunting / Anna K. Behrensmeyer.

ISBN

• 0306428210
• 9780306428210

LCCN

87034302

OCLC

• ocm17326914
• 17326914
• SCSB-1190745

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library