Meat-Eating and Human Evolution (Human Evolution Series)

383 Pages·2001·22.73 MB·English

by  Craig B. Stanford

MEAT-EATING &
HUMAN EVOLUTION
THE HUMAN EVOLUTION SERIES
Editors
Russell Ciochon, University of Iowa
Bernard Wood, George Washington University
Editorial Advisory Board
Leslie Aiello, University College, London
Alison Brooks, George Washington University
Fred Grine, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Andrew Hill, Yale University
David Pilbeam, Harvard University
Yoel Rak, Tel-Aviv University
Mary Ellen Ruvolo, Harvard University
Henry Schwarcz, McMaster University
African Biogeography, Climate Change, and Human Evolution
edited by Timothy G. Bromage and Friedemann Schrenk
Meat-Eating and Human Evolution
edited by Craig B. Stanford and Henry T. Bunn
MEAT-EATING &
HUMAN EVOLUTION
EDITED BY
Craig B. Stanford & Henry T. Bunn
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UNIVERSITY PRESS
2001
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Meat-eating and human evolution / edited by Craig B. Stanford and Henry T. Bunn.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-513139-8
1. Prehistoric peoples—Food. 2. Fossil hominids. 3. Meat—History.
4. Human evolution. I. Stanford, Craig B. (Craig Britton), 1956–
II. Bunn, Henry T.
GN799.F6 b M43 2001
599.93'8—dc21 00-036745
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21
Printed in the United States of America
on acid free paper
C. S. dedicates the volume to his parents,
Jacqueline and Leland Stanford, Jr.
H. B. dedicates the volume to his family
and we both dedicate the book to the memory of Glynn Isaac
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Contents
Contributors xi
Introduction 3
Craig B. Stanford
Henry T. Bunn
I. Meat-Eating and the Fossil Record
1 Deconstructing the Serengeti 1 3
Martha Tappen
2 Taphonomy of the Swartkrans Hominid Postcrania and Its Bearing
on Issues of Meat-Eating and Fire Management 33
Travis R. Pickering
3 Neandertal Hunting and Meat-Processing in the Near East:
Evidence from Kebara Cave (Israel) 52
John D. Speth
Eitan Tchernov
4 Modeling the Edible Landscape 73
Jeanne Sept
viii Contents
II. Living Nonhuman Analogs for Meat-Eating
5 The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Carnivores: A Review of Past and
Present Carnivore Community Dynamics 101
Blaire Van Valkenburgh
6 A Comparison of Social Meat-Foraging by Chimpanzees and
Human Foragers 122
Craig B. Stanford
7 Meat and the Early Human Diet: Insights from Neotropical
Primate Studies 141
Lisa M. Rose
8 The Other Faunivory: Primate Insectivory and Early Human Diet 160
William C. McGrew
9 Meat-Eating by the Fourth African Ape 179
Margaret J. Schoeninger
Henry T. Bunn
Shawn Murray
Travis Pickering
Jim Moore
III. Modern Human Foragers
10 Hunting, Power Scavenging, and Butchering by Hadza Foragers and
by Plio-Pleistocene Homo 199
Henry T. Bunn
11 Is Meat the Hunter's Property?: Big Game, Ownership, and
Explanations of Hunting and Sharing 219
Kristen Hawkes
12 Specialized Meat-Eating in the Holocene: An Archaeological Case
from the Frigid Tropics of High-Altitude Peru 237
John W. Rick
Katherine M. Moore
13 Mutualistic Hunting 261
Michael S. Alvard
14 Intragroup Resource Transfers: Comparative Evidence, Models, and
Implications for Human Evolution 279
Bruce Winterhalder
Contents ix
IV. Theoretical Considerations
15 The Evolutionary Consequences of Increased Carnivory
in Hominids 305
Robert A. Foley
16 Neonate Body Size and Hominid Carnivory 332
Natalia Vasey
Alan Walker
Conclusions: Research Trajectories on Hominid Meat-Eating 350
Henry T. Bunn
Craig B. Stanford
Index 361