Hadza Hunting, Butchering, and Bone Transport and Their Archaeological Implications

O’Connell, James F.; Hawkes, Kristen; Jones, Nicholas Blurton

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“…(Fabaceae) in the region are a key food resource for Hadza hunter-gatherers. The Hadza subsist by gathering tubers, fruit, and honey and by hunting or scavenging medium-to largesized game (Tomita 1966;Woodburn 1968;Vincent 1985a;O'Connell et al 1988;Marlowe 2002). Plant taxonomy and Hadza nomenclature follows Vincent (1985b).…”

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Mechanical Properties of Plant Underground Storage Organs and Implications for Dietary Models of Early Hominins

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Constantino P, and Lucas PW. The mechanical properties of plant underground storage organs and implications for the adaptive radiation and resource partitioning of early hominins. Evolutionary Biology 35(3): 159-175. Abstract The diet of early human ancestors has received renewed theoretical interest since the discovery of elevated d RESEARCH ARTICLE13 C values in the enamel of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus. As a result, the hominin diet is hypothesized to have included C 4 grass or the tissues of animals which themselves consumed C 4 grass. On mechanical grounds, such a diet is incompatible with the dental morphology and dental microwear of early hominins. Most inferences, particularly for Paranthropus, favor a diet of hard or mechanically resistant foods. This discrepancy has invigorated the longstanding hypothesis that hominins consumed plant underground storage organs (USOs). Plant USOs are attractive candidate foods because many bulbous grasses and cormous sedges use C 4 photosynthesis. Yet mechanical data for USOs-or any putative hominin food-are scarcely known. To fill this empirical void we measured the mechanical properties of USOs from 98 plant species from across sub-Saharan Africa. We found that rhizomes were the most resistant to deformation and fracture, followed by tubers, corms, and bulbs. An important result of this study is that corms exhibited low toughness values (mean = 265.0 J m -2 ) and relatively high Young's modulus values (mean = 4.9 MPa). This combination of properties fits many descriptions of the hominin diet as consisting of hard-brittle objects. When compared to corms, bulbs are tougher (mean = 325.0 J m -2 ) and less stiff (mean = 2.5 MPa). Again, this combination of traits resembles dietary inferences, especially for Australopithecus, which is predicted to have consumed soft-tough foods. Lastly, we observed the roasting behavior of Hadza hunter-gatherers and measured the effects of roasting on the toughness on undomesticated tubers. Our results support assumptions that roasting lessens the work of mastication, and, by inference, the cost of digestion. Together these findings provide the first mechanical basis for discussing the adaptive advantages of roasting tubers and the plausibility of USOs in the diet of early hominins.

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Mechanical Properties of Plant Underground Storage Organs and Implications for Dietary Models of Early Hominins

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“…En la primera, se tiende a desplazar el esqueleto axial al campamento base, en la idea de que el balance entre sus costes de descarnado y su utilidad justifica su aporte completo en detrimento del esqueleto apendicular del que únicamente se transportaría la carne. Esta estrategia coincide con las observaciones etnográficas realizadas entre grupos cazadores-recolectores actuales del continente africano en un escenario de imposibilidad de almacenamiento de las carcasas fuera del campamento base (Monahan 1998;O'Connell et al 1988). En la segunda, siguiendo los postulados de Binford sobre índices de utilidad (1978), se prima el aporte del esqueleto apendicular, lo que implí-citamente acepta una estrategia de transporte similar a las de los esquimales Nunamiut (Binford 1981), con un mínimo procesado en campo y la posibilidad de una contribución diferida en el tiempo.…”

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Comportamiento económico de los últimos cazadores- recolectores y primeras evidencias de domesticación en el occidente de Asturias. La Cueva de Mazaculos II

Marín-Arroyo¹,

Morales²

2009

Trab. prehist.

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RESUMENEl estudio del comportamiento económico desarrollado por los últimos grupos de cazadores-recolectores del Mesolítico Cantábrico, fundamentalmente dominado por el abundante registro de la explotación del medio marino, cuenta con reducidas evidencias del consumo de mamífe-ros terrestres, en lo que supone una ruptura con la tendencia observada durante el Paleolítico Superior. Las causas de este cambio y su implicación en la demografía de la región se investigan en este trabajo mediante el análisis arqueozoológico y tafonómico detallado de la macrofauna del yacimiento de Mazaculos II (Ribadedeva, Asturias), un conchero que alberga uno de los depósitos fó-siles más importantes del período. Adicionalmente se presentan los primeros indicios de domesticación en el Cantábrico occidental. ABSTRACT

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“…O'Connell et al 1988;Bartram 1993;Zeanah 2000;Lupo 2001;Cannon 2003). If foraging efficiency declined as a result of resource depression, the pattern of carcass exploitation would be expected to change.…”

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Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes (TA29) : Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes

Clark¹,

Leach²,

O’Connor³

2008

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terra australis 29Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. List of volumes in Terra AustralisVolume 1: Burrill Lake and Currarong: Coastal Sites in Southern New South Wales. R.J. Lampert (1971) Volume 2: Ol Tumbuna: Archaeological Excavations in the Eastern Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea. J.P. White (1972) Volume 3 Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2008. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. ISLANDS OF INQUIRY Papers in honour of Atholl Anderson'Aye,' said the Captain, reverentially; 'it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling. Think on it when the stormy nights is so pitch dark,' said the Captain, solemnly holding up his hook, 'as you can't see your hand afore you, excepting when the wiwid lightning reweals the same; and when you drive, drive, drive through the storm and dark, as if you was a driving, head on, to the world without end,'Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son (1848:252). Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard terra australis 29 terra australis 29 PrefaceThe impetus for this volume is the pending retirement of Professor Atholl Anderson from the Department of Archaeology and Natural History in the Australian National University in June 2008, after a distinguished and brilliant career in academic archaeology. In geographic range, Atholl's field research has extended over large swathes of the Pacific Ocean, from the west coast of South America to Western Micronesia, to Island Southeast Asia, and west to the Indian Ocean. Few prehistorians of Oceania have seen as much of their subject matter at such close quarters. The variety and span of his study areas are matched, and quite possibly exceeded, by the prodigious variety of subjects he has tackled in numerous scientific publications, which are ...

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Hadza Hunting, Butchering, and Bone Transport and Their Archaeological Implications

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Mechanical Properties of Plant Underground Storage Organs and Implications for Dietary Models of Early Hominins

Mechanical Properties of Plant Underground Storage Organs and Implications for Dietary Models of Early Hominins

Comportamiento económico de los últimos cazadores- recolectores y primeras evidencias de domesticación en el occidente de Asturias. La Cueva de Mazaculos II

Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes (TA29) : Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes

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