Omnivorous Primates. Gathering and Hunting in Human Evolution / Geza Teleki, Robert S. O. Harding.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harding, Robert S. O., editor.

Teleki, Geza, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1981]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies human behavior, such as hunting and gathering, as an evolving element which adapts in response to changing conditions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

1. Introduction / Harding, Robert S. Ο. / Teleki, Geza

2. Diet and Human Evolution / Mann, Alan Ε.

3. To What Extent Were Early Hominids Carnivorous? An Archaeological Perspective / Isaac, Glynn Ll. / Crader, Diana C.

4. The Fat of the Land: Notes on Paleolithic Diet in Iberia / Freeman, Leslie G.

5. Later Stone Age Subsistence at Byeneskranskop Cave, South Africa / Klein, Richard G.

6. An Order of Omnivores: Nonhuman Primate Diets in the Wild / Harding, Robert S. Ο.

7. Diet and the Evolution of Feeding Strategies among Forest Primates / Hladik, Claude-Marcel

8. Processes and Products of Change: Baboon Predatory Behavior at Gilgil, Kenya / Strum, Shirley C.

9. The Omnivorous Diet and Eclectic Feeding Habits of Chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania / Teleki, Geza

10. Subsistence and Ecological Adaptations of Modern Hunter/Gatherers / Hayden, Brian

11. Comparative Ecology of Food-Sharing in Australia and Northwest California / Gould, Richard A.

12. Hunter/Gatherers of the Central Kalahari / Silberbauer, George

13. The Cultural Ecology of Hunting Behavior among Mbuti Pygmies in the Ituri Forest, Zaire / Harako, Reizo

14. Late Pleistocene Extinction and Human Predation: A Critical Overview / Webster, David

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88746-9

OCLC:

1100435521