The relationship of evolution with diet and environment can provide insights into modern
disease. Fossil evidence shows apes, and early human ancestors were fruit eaters living in …

The aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as
comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both …

Brain enlargement, reduction in molar tooth size, increased stature and other features of
early Homo did not evolve in a vacuum. These evolutionary changes refl ect shifts in a …

The prime-adult-dominated mortality profile of large bovids in the 1.8 Ma FLK Zinj
assemblage, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, was recently attributed to ambush hunting by early …

Reconstruction of early Pleistocene hominin carcass acquisition and processing behaviors
are necessarily based at least in part on butchered fossil bones. This paper provides …

The world's first archaeological traces from 2.6 million years ago (Ma) at Gona, in Ethiopia,
include sharp-edged cutting tools and cut-marked animal bones, which indicate …

Preliminary experiments on bone breakage have shown the potential utility of quantifying
some of its diagnostic features (percussion marks, percussion notches) for taphonomic …

We bring together the quite different kinds of evidence available from palaeoanthropology
and primatology to better understand the origins of Plio-Pleistocene percussive technology …

Resolving the issue of how Early Stone Age hominins acquired large mammal carcasses
requires information on their feeding interactions with large carnivores. This ecological …

Ongoing excavations at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, reveal tremendous variability among
stone artifact assemblages across the Plio-Pleistocene Olduvai Lake Basin during Bed I and …