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The Evolution of Human Hunting

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  • © 1987

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Editors:
  1. Matthew H. Nitecki

    1. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA
      Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA

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  2. Doris V. Nitecki

    1. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Idea of Human Hunting

    • Matthew H. Nitecki
    Pages 1-9

  3. Reconstructing How Early People Exploited Animals: Problems and Prospects

    • Richard G. Klein
    Pages 11-45

  4. Were There Elephant Hunters at Torralba?

    • Lewis R. Binford
    Pages 47-105

  5. Bodies, Brawn, Brains and Noses: Human Ancestors and Human Predation

    • Erik Trinkaus
    Pages 107-145

  6. Hunting in Late Upper Paleolithic Western Europe

    • Lawrence Guy Straus
    Pages 147-176

  7. Prehistoric, Plains-Mountain, Large-Mammal, Communal Hunting Strategies

    • George C. Frison
    Pages 177-223

  8. Analysis of Kill-Butchery Bonebeds and Interpretation of Paleoindian Hunting

    • Lawrence C. Todd
    Pages 225-266

  9. The Pleistocene Archaeology of Beringia

    • Richard E. Morlan
    Pages 267-307

  10. Mastodont Procurement by Paleoindians of the Great Lakes Region: Hunting or Scavenging?

    • Daniel C. Fisher
    Pages 309-421

  11. Taphonomy and Hunting

    • Anna K. Behrensmeyer
    Pages 423-450

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 451-464
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About this book

The successful early adaptations of man involve a complex interplay of biological and cultural factors. There is a rapidly growing number of paleontologists and paleoanthropologists who are concerned with hominid foraging and the evolution of hunting. New techniques of paleoanthropology and taphonomy, and new information on human remains are added to the traditional approaches to the study of past human hunting and other foraging behavior. There is also a resurgence of interest in the early peopling of the New World. The present book is the result of the Ninth Annual Spring Systematics 10, 1986, in the Symposium, on the Evolution of Human Hunting, held on May Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. We are grateful to the NSF (grant no. BNS 8519960) for partial financial support in arranging the symposium. In preparation of this volume we have received assistance from many people, particularly the reviewers of individual chapters; it is impossible to name them all. We must however single out Drs. Richard G. Klein and Glen H. Cole for their encouragement at various stages of preparation of the symposium and this volume, and for being a help to the anthropological knowledge. Zbigniew Jastrzebski assisted with the figures and Paul K. Johnson diligently typed the camera-ready copy, and patiently coordinated the endless book-making chores.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA

    Matthew H. Nitecki, Doris V. Nitecki

  • Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, USA

    Matthew H. Nitecki

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Evolution of Human Hunting

  • Editors: Matthew H. Nitecki, Doris V. Nitecki

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8833-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42821-0Due: 01 March 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-8835-7Published: 15 June 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-8833-3Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 476

  • Number of Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Paleontology, Evolutionary Biology

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