Search Results - "Bunn, Henry T."
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Configurational approach to identifying the earliest hominin butchers
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (07-12-2010)“…The announcement of two approximately 3.4-million-y-old purportedly butchered fossil bones from the Dikika paleoanthropological research area (Lower Awash…”
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First partial skeleton of a 1.34-million-year-old Paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Published in PloS one (05-12-2013)“…Recent excavations in Level 4 at BK (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) have yielded nine hominin teeth, a distal humerus fragment, a proximal radius with much…”
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Earliest porotic hyperostosis on a 1.5-million-year-old hominin, olduvai gorge, Tanzania
Published in PloS one (03-10-2012)“…Meat-eating was an important factor affecting early hominin brain expansion, social organization and geographic movement. Stone tool butchery marks on ungulate…”
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A preliminary application of dental cementum incremental analysis to determine the season-of-death of equids from the Xujiayao site,China
Published in Science China. Earth sciences (01-06-2017)“…Seasonality study of Paleolithic archaeological faunal assemblages is important for reconstructing modes of animal death and ancient hominin strategies for…”
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Aerial map demonstrates erosional patterns and changing topography at Isimila, Tanzania
Published in South African Journal of Science (01-07-2019)“…Isimila is a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site located in southern Tanzania. The site is known for large surface assemblages of later Acheulean lithics…”
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A critical re-evaluation of bone surface modification models for inferring fossil hominin and carnivore interactions through a multivariate approach: Application to the FLK Zinj archaeofaunal assemblage (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
Published in Quaternary international (16-02-2014)“…Over the past three decades, controversial interpretations of the behavioral meaning of bone surface modifications at FLK Zinj regarding primary or secondary…”
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Nutritional Composition of Some Wild Plant Foods and Honey Used by Hadza Foragers of Tanzania
Published in Journal of food composition and analysis (01-02-2001)“…We report compositional data for several foods that comprise the annual diet among Hadza foragers near Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania. Samples collected…”
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Corrigendum: Aerial map demonstrates erosional patterns and changing topography at Isimila, Tanzania
Published in South African Journal of Science (01-02-2022)“…Due to an error in the reference plane, the elevation range shown for the digital elevation model (DEM) in Figure 5a (Page 3) is incorrect. The correct…”
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Experimental study of cut marks made with rocks unmodified by human flaking and its bearing on claims of ∼3.4-million-year-old butchery evidence from Dikika, Ethiopia
Published in Journal of archaeological science (2012)“…In order to assess further the recent claims of ∼3.4 Ma butchery marks on two fossil bones from the site of Dikika (Ethiopia), we broadened the…”
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Reply to McPherron et al.: Doubting Dikika is about data, not paradigms
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Taphonomy of ungulate ribs and the consumption of meat and bone by 1.2-million-year-old hominins at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Published in Journal of archaeological science (01-02-2013)“…The phenomenon of equifinality complicates behavioral interpretations of faunal assemblages from contexts in which Pleistocene hominins are suspected bone…”
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Composition of Tubers Used by Hadza Foragers of Tanzania
Published in Journal of food composition and analysis (01-02-2001)“…Data are presented on three edible species of tuber (Vigna frutescens, Eminia entennulifa, and Ipomoea transvaalensis) consumed by Hadza foragers in northern…”
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The endurance running hypothesis and hunting and scavenging in savanna-woodlands
Published in Journal of human evolution (01-10-2007)Get full text
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Sedimentary geology and human origins; a fresh look at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Published in Journal of sedimentary research (01-08-2010)“…Recent field work at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) using sedimentary geology, in particular high-resolution paleoenvironmental reconstruction and isotope…”
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Large ungulate mortality profiles and ambush hunting by Acheulean-age hominins at Elandsfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Published in Journal of archaeological science (01-07-2019)“…At Elandsfontein, a Middle Pleistocene marsh deposit preserves an abundance of mammalian fossils, along with a partial cranium of Homo heidelbergensis and a…”
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Meat eating and hominid evolution
Published in Current anthropology (01-12-1999)“…The role of hunting and scavenging in human evolution has been a subject of intense anthropological interest for decades and has produced some of the most…”
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Prey mortality profiles indicate that Early Pleistocene Homo at Olduvai was an ambush predator
Published in Quaternary international (16-02-2014)“…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…”
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A Taphonomic Perspective on the Archaeology of Human Origins
Published in Annual review of anthropology (01-01-1991)Get full text
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The Structure of the Lower Pleistocene Archaeological Record: A Case Study From the Koobi Fora Formation [and Comments and Reply]
Published in Current anthropology (01-06-1993)“…A study of the archaeological debris scattered through the lower Okote Member of the Koobi Fora Formation in northwestern Kenya reveals a serious mismatch…”
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Archaeological evidence for meat-eating by Plio-Pleistocene hominids from Koobi Fora and Olduvai Gorge
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