Cut marks on the Middle Pleistocene elephant carcass of Áridos 2 (Madrid, Spain)

Yravedra, José; Domı́nguez-Rodrigo, Manuel; Santonja, Manuel; Pérez‐González, Alfredo; Panera, Joaquín; Rubio‐Jara, Susana; Baquedano, Enrique

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.05.007

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“…Faunal remains (with cut marks suggesting butchery) survive in numerous Middle Pleistocene sites (Stiner et al 2009;Yravedra et al 2010) and have been interpreted as evidence of early hominin meat consumption. In contrast, evidence for plant foods rarely survives, making it difficult to estimate their contribution and to reconstruct ancestral diet on the basis of physical remains alone.…”

Section: Ancestral Dietmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Importance of Dietary Carbohydrate in Human Evolution

Hardy¹,

Brand‐Miller²,

Brown³

et al. 2015

The Quarterly Review of Biology

186

137

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Section: Ancestral Dietmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Importance of Dietary Carbohydrate in Human Evolution

Hardy¹,

Brand‐Miller²,

Brown³

et al. 2015

The Quarterly Review of Biology

186

137

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“…Certainly, it is from this point that a number of morphological adaptations suggestive of increased meat consumption appear (McHenry, 1994;Aiello and Wheeler, 1995;Aiello and Wells, 2002;Ant n, 2003;Milton, 2003;Bramble and Lieberman, 2004;Bunn, 2007;Ant n et al, 2014). Outside of Africa and at later points in time there is further evidence that Acheulean technology was used in butchery activities (e.g., Shipman et al, 1981;Roberts and Partfitt, 1999;Bello et al, 2009;Yravedra et al, 2010), although this does not, of course, preclude handaxe use during plant processing as well (Domínguez-Rodrigo et al, 2001). …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating interrelationships between Lower Palaeolithic stone tool effectiveness and tool user biometric variation: implications for technological and evolutionary changes

Key

Lycett

2016

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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with cutting efficiency using both flakes and handaxes over extended periods of use and in multiple types of cutting task. Results indicate that (1) both handaxe and flake cutting efficiency is significantly related with biometric variation of individual tool-users, (2) relationships between biometric parameters and efficiency are consistent across extended durations but vary dependent upon task-type conditions, (3) manipulative strength is the most significant biometric trait in terms of predicting flake efficiency, while (4) hand size is the strongest predictor of handaxe cutting efficiency. These results demonstrate the long-term impact that stone tool use likely had on the evolution of hominin biometric variation during the Lower Palaeolithic, while also highlighting the variable influence of different tool use contexts.Most notably, results indicate that the onset of the Acheulean may have been dependent, a priori, upon hand dimensions that are close to the modern human range, and that prior to the appearance of this anatomy, handaxe use would have been an impractical (i.e. inefficient) tool use behaviour compared to the use of flakes.

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“…In central Europe and during the Clovis era in North America, people left behind sites dominated by elephant remains (Haynes & Klimowicz 2014). The same was found at an Upper Acheulian butchery site at Lehringen, near Bremen in Germany (Movius 1950), at Gesher Benot Ya'Aqov in Israel (Goren-Inbar et al 1994), in Kent, United Kingdom (Wenban- Smith et al 2006) and in Spain, such as at the Middle Pleistocene site of Aridos (Villa 1990;Yravedra et al 2010). At Ambrona, also in Spain, there are between 30 and 35 elephants with evidence of butchery even though only a few associated stone tools were found (Howell 1966).…”

Section: Ivory Trade: Hunting Elephants and Elephant Mortalitymentioning

confidence: 71%