Zooarchaeology and modern human origins : human hunting behavior during the later Pleistocene / edited by Jamie L. Clark, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA, John D. Speth, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Jamie L.

Speth, John D., editor.

International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference 2010 : Paris, France)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series, 1877-9077

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Human beings--Origin.

Human beings.

Hunting, Prehistoric.

Human evolution.

Paleontology--Pleistocene.

Paleontology.

Physical Description:

xi, 275 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2013]

Contents:

Introduction : Zooarchaeology and modern human origins / Jamie L. Clark and John D. Speth

Exploring the relationship between climate change and the decline of the Howieson's Poort at Sibudu Cave (South Africa) / Jamie L. Clark

Middle Paleolithic large-mammal hunting in the southern Levant / John D. Speth

Middle Paleolithic prey choice inferred from a natural pitfall trap : Rantis Cave, Israel / Reuven Yeshurun

New opportunities for previously excavated sites : paleoeconomy as a human evolutionary indicator at Tabun Cave (Israel) / Ana B. Marín-Arroyo

New contributions on subsistence practices during the Middle-Upper Paleolithic in northern Spain / José Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros

Iberian archaeofaunas and hominin subsistence during Marine Isotope Stages 4 and 3 / Lawrence Guy Straus

Animal exploitation strategies during the Uluzzian at Grotta di Fumane (Verona, Italy) / Antonio Tagliacozzo, Matteo Romandini, Ivana Fiore, Monica Gala and Marco Peresani

A diachronic evaluation of Neanderthal cervid exploitation and site use at Pech de l'Azé IV, France / Laura Niven

Neanderthal to Neanderthal evolution : preliminary observations on faunal exploitation from Mousterian to Châtelperronian at Arcy-sur-Cure / James G. Enloe

The importance of fish, fowl and small mammals in the Paleolithic diet of the Swabian Jura, southwestern Germany / Nicholas J. Conard, Keiko Kitagawa, Petra Krönneck, Madelaine Böhme and Susanne C. Münzel

Neanderthals and cave hyenas : co-existence, competition or conflict? / Gerrit L. Dusseldorp

Bone grease rendering in Mousterian contexts : the case of Noisetier Cave (Fréchet-Aure, Hautes-Pyrénées, France) / Sandrine Costamagno

Foraging goals and transport decisions in western Europe during the Paleolithic and early Holocene / Eugène Morin and Elspeth Ready.

Notes:

Outgrowth of a session at the 11th International Conference of the International Council of Archaeozoology (ICAZ) held in Paris in August 2010. (Preface)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

940076765X

9789400767652

OCLC:

830109417

Publisher Number:

99954980007