Carnivore tooth-marks, microbial bioerosion, and the invalidation of Domínguez-Rodrigo and Barba's (2006) test of Oldowan hominin scavenging behavior

Blumenschine, Robert J.; Prassack, Kari A.; Kreger, C. David; Pante, Michael C.

doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.01.011

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“…In contrast, meat is a critical food resource for modern human hunter-gatherers, along with plant foods (17,36,101,136,146). The earliest evidence for meat-eating in hominins dates to ~2.5 Mya (35).…”

Section: Meat: Scavenging and Huntingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The earliest evidence for meat-eating in hominins dates to ~2.5 Mya (35). Some of the fossil findings are consistent with scavenging activities, but on the whole, there is still considerable uncertainty about the relative importance and timing of scavenging versus hunting in hominin evolution (17,36,136,146). Beyond the high caloric gains from the consumption of animal source foods, meat also provides proteins, iron, zinc, vitamins, and other critical dietary components (99).…”

Section: Meat: Scavenging and Huntingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evolutionary Adaptations to Dietary Changes

Luca¹,

Perry²,

Rienzo³

2014

Food History: Critical and Primary Sources

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Through cultural innovation and changes in habitat and ecology, there have been a number of major dietary shifts in human evolution, including meat eating, cooking, and those associated with plant and animal domestication. The identification of signatures of adaptations to such dietary changes in the genome of extant primates (including humans) may shed light not only on the evolutionary history of our species, but also on the mechanisms that underlie common metabolic diseases in modern human populations. In this review, we provide a brief overview of the major dietary shifts that occurred during hominin evolution, and we discuss the methods and approaches used to identify signals of natural selection in patterns of sequence variation. We then review the results of studies aimed at detecting the genetic loci that played a major role in dietary adaptations and conclude by outlining the potential of future studies in this area.

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Section: Meat: Scavenging and Huntingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Meat: Scavenging and Huntingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evolutionary Adaptations to Dietary Changes

Luca¹,

Perry²,

Rienzo³

2014

Food History: Critical and Primary Sources

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“…Although associated bone has been found at several Oldowan sites, one site in particular, FLK 22 (Zinj) at Olduvai, remains the best described. [77][78][79][80] FLK was situated in a densely wooded spot within 200 m of a spring. The hominins carried parts of carcasses to the site, where they processed them further.…”

Section: Tool Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some favor hunting or confrontational scavenging, 79 while others favor more passive forms of scavenging, such as pilfering from leopard kills cached in trees. 76,77 Reliance on carcasses of medium to large ungulates, however they were acquired, put these hominins in either physical (confrontational scavenging) or ecological competition with members of the carnivore guild, including not just lions, leopards, and hyenas, but also saber-toothed cats. What cannot be determined from the archeological record, at least not yet, is how important meat-eating was to the diet of Oldowan hominins.…”

Section: Tool Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“An ape's view of the Oldowan” revisited

Wynn

Hernández‐Aguilar²,

Marchant³

et al. 2011

Evolutionary Anthropology

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In 1989, Wynn and McGrew published an explicit comparison between Oldowan technology and what was then known of chimpanzee technology. They compared the range and variety of tools, adaptive role of tools, carrying distances, spatial cognition, manufacturing procedures, and modes of learning. They concluded that everything archeologists had reconstructed about the behavior of Oldowan hominins could be accommodated within the ape adaptive grade; that is, a paraphyletic group united by overall similarities in anatomy and, in this case, behavior. The only Oldowan activities that were almost unknown for modern apes were the long-distance transport of objects and direct competition with carnivores, which was implied by meat acquisition activities. "In its general features Oldowan culture was ape, not human. Nowhere in this picture need we posit elements such as language, extensive sharing, division of labor, or pair-bonded families, all of which are part of the baggage carried by the term human."

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“…A small tooth pit and a tooth score occur on the medial border of the talar head. Apparent microbial bioerosion (e.g., Davis, 1997;Blumenschine et al, 2007) is present in the forms of a small tunnel into the talar head and a narrow channel on the medial malleolar surface.…”

Section: Carnivore Feeding Traces On the Foot Bonesmentioning

confidence: 99%