BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture : 1MO3_Chapter 11.docx
11 Jun 2013
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Large prey shared with other members of group. Food sharing and division of labour in humans. Juveniles: consumers: middle-aged men and postmenopausal women: producers. Extractive foraging and hunting require intelligence and learning. Contemporary experiments indicate that oldowan tools could have been used for a variety of tasks, including large game butchery. Wear patterns on bone tools from south africa indicate that they were used to excavate termite mounds. Mode 1 stone tool technology: carcass butchering, digging sticks. Evidence for meat eating: concentrations of butchered bones and tools, bovid concentrations outnumber all others. Taphonomy: a study of what happens to bone after death. Oldowan toolmakers and the origins of human life history. Tooth vs. stone tool marks: not water accumulated, hominins: cut marks. Scavenging: cut marks on top of carnivore tooth marks. Scavenging is as difficult and dangerous as is hunting. Most large mammalian carnivores practice hunting and scavenging. Possibly places for processing of hunted or scavenged kills.
