The evolution of hominid diets: integrating approaches to the study of palaeolithic subsistence

This volume brings together new and important research from the top experts in hominid diets across multiple fields. The objective of the volume is to explore if there is a consensus between the different methods, allowing us to better understand the nature of hominid dietary strategies through time. Contributions focus on modern studies, faunal studies, physical anthropology, archaeological studies, and isotopic studies, all aimed at answering the major questions of the evolution of hominid diets, such as: meat-eating emergence, hunting vs. scavenging, hunting technologies, and resource intensification in late humans. Features new multidisciplinary, integrated approaches to the study of hominid diets INDICE: From the contents 1. The diets of non-human primates: frugivory, food processing, and food sharing. 2. The Energetics of Encephalization in Early Hominids. 3. Meals vs. snacks and the human dentition and diet during the Paleolithic. 4. Modern human physiology with respect to evolutionary adaptationsthat relate to diet in the past. 5. Hunting and hunting weapons of the Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe. 6. Neanderthal and modern human diet in Eastern Europe. 7. Hominin subsistence patterns during the Middle and Late Pleistocene in northwestern Europe. 8. Late Pleistocene subsistence strategies and resource intensification in Africa. 9. Seasonal Patterns of Prey Acquisition andInter-group Competition During the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of the Southern Caucasus. 10. Epipaleolithic subsistence intensification in the southern Levant: the faunal evidence. 11. Paleolithic diet and the division of labor in Mediterranean Eurasia.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9698-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 300
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés