The effect of handling time on subsistence technology

Bright, Jason; Ugan, Andrew; Hunsaker, Lori

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“…Grinding, pounding, or shelling could have been done using tools that are either not preserved in the archaeological record, such as wooden implements, or not recognized as plant processing implements, such as bedrock grinding surfaces (Gorecki et al, 1997) or other unmodified stones (Zarrillo and Kooyman, 2006). Furthermore, if the processing of plants by grinding was only an occasional dietary behavior, there should be little investment in formal grinding tools (Bright et al, 2002). Studies of modern foragers have shown that individuals should process some amount of plant foods in the field as part of a trade off between processing and transportation (Metcalfe and Barlow, 1992).…”

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“…It is possible that with the technologies the Neanderthals had in hand, certain plant foods would have been more highly-ranked than small, fast, and hard-to-catch animals (Stiner and Kuhn, 1992;Stiner et al, 1999Stiner et al, , 2000 because the plants were accessible without the development and curation of new tools (Bright et al, 2002;Bird and O'Connell, 2006). At low population densities, large mammals and a broad plant diet probably would have been sufficient to meet the dietary needs of Neanderthals (O'Connell, 2006;Hockett, 2012).…”

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“…Results from faunal profiles (e.g., Stiner, 2006;Stiner et al, 2000), nitrogen and carbon isotope analyses (e.g., Bocherens, 2009;Richards and Trinkaus, 2009), and energy requirement estimations (e.g., Froehle and Churchill, 2009), together with a lack of complex technology (e.g., Shea, 2006), have suggested that Neanderthals ate almost exclusively large animal game, with very little contribution from plants, small game or aquatic foods. In a behavioral ecology context, this narrow diet is a reflection of an environment where encounter rates with highlyranked prey are high, human population sizes are low, and the pressure to create new, complex social structures, such as a sexual division of labor, and complex technology to increase the capture and processing of foods, such as atlatls and dedicated plant grinding implements, is low (Bright et al, 2002;Kuhn and Stiner, 2006;O'Connell, 2006).…”

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Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans

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2014

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Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans

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“…Las estrategias de manipulación de las capturas dependen de la tecnología empleada y de los usos y costumbres de los cazadores-recolectores (Bright, Ugan y Hunsaker, 2002), lo que incide en el balance energético que proporcionan tanto a cazadores como al resto del grupo. La caza cooperativa suele estar estrechamente vinculada al reparto de los beneficios obtenidos, es común, aunque no exclusiva entre los cazadores-recolectores que no almacenan alimento (Binford, 1980), y se centra en las grandes presas que son inaccesibles para un cazador solitario.…”

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Gestión cinegética racional ligada a la praxis de la caza y la recolección. ¿Entelequia aristotélica o quimera?

Yáñez

Aguilar

Duarte

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RESUMEN:Gestión cinegética racional ligada a la praxis de la caza y la recolección. ¿Entelequia aristotélica o quimera? Desde los albores de su historia filogenética, el consumo de proteínas de origen animal ha tenido gran relevancia en la evolución de los humanos. La caza cooperativa representa una estrategia evolutiva estable a partir del momento en que los cazadores paleolíticos se especializan en la persecución de grandes animales. Todo este proceso implica la adopción de decisiones relacionadas con la gestión de la caza, algunas de las cuales siguen siendo utilizadas por los cazadores-recolectores contemporáneos. En estas sociedades que todavía practican la caza como medio de subsistencia, la composición de sus respectivas dietas y las técnicas de explotación empleadas son explicables bajo supuestos teóricos contenidos en la Teoría del ABSTRACT: Rational management of hunting and gathering: An Aristotelian entelechy or a chimera? Since the dawn of time, consumption of animal protein has been crucially important to the evolution of humans. Cooperative hunting is an Evolutionarily Stable Strategy from the time when Palaeolithic hunters specialized in the pursuit of large animals. The entire process involves making decisions related to game management, some of which are still used by contemporary hunter-gatherers. In these societies, which still practice subsistence hunting, the composition of their diets and the exploitation techniques employed are explained by the theoretical underpinnings contained in the Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT). In order to test this theory, we have taken into account four decisions Cómo citar este artículo/Citation: Vargas Yáñez, J. M., Farfán Aguilar, M. A., Duarte Duarte, J. y Fa, J. E. (2017). Gestión cinegética racional ligada a la praxis de la caza y la recolección. ¿Entelequia aristotélica o quimera?. Arbor, 193 (786): a415.

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“…The idea that the simplest or most efficient solution to a problem will most likely be selected by past hominins underpins much behavioural ecology theory in archaeology and optimality models in general (Barlow and Metcalfe 1996;Bright et al 2002;Broughton 1994;Broughton et al 2010;Buonasera 2015;Kuhn 1994;Lupo 2007;O'Connell and Allen 2012;Stiner 2001;Stiner and Kuhn 2016;Surovell 2009;Ugan et al 2003;Winterhalder and Smith 2000). When the idea of optimality is applied to lithic technology, a replicative knapper may discover the easiest, most efficient, or logical means of producing a certain technology.…”

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The role of experimental knapping in empirically testing key themes in the evolution of lithic technology: reduction intensity, efficiency and behavioural complexity

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Experimental knapping has complimented and stimulated lithic analyses for over a century.Throughout this period, the discipline has witnessed an increase in the scientific rigour and theoretical grounding with which these studies are conducted. This thesis charts these key trends and in doing so establishes a best-practice model of experimental knapping, the veracity of which is in turn tested using four new lithic experiments. These case-studies employ experimental knapping to advance our understanding of flake platform measurement, reduction intensity, technological efficiency, and behavioural complexity.The first case-study, Chapter 3, offers a more accurate and precise calliper-based method of flake platform measurement that relies on simple geometric approximations of platform shape rather than the inflexible and unreliable existing method of multiplying platform width by thickness. In Chapter 4, a new reduction intensity metric for backed blades, a hitherto overlooked tool-type, is developed and tested on the backed blades from an early Neolithic site in Turkey. This new metric allows a reconstruction of the raw material consumption patterns at the site, finding that the backed blades These four case-studies, coupled with a consideration of existing knapping experiments, allow an understanding of how experimental knapping is embedded in the broader archaeological research process, and ultimately tests the efficacy of a best-practice model of experimental knapping. This model identifies the initial scope, methodological control, and breadth of interpretations as the key variables dictating the validity of an experiment. While knapping experiments may differ markedly in their scope and control, they do not necessarily vary in their validity. Instead, it is the interplay of these variables that dictates the validity of experimentation. Within this best-practice model, lithic experiments are most robust when the scale of the initial scope, methodological control and ensuing interpretations are congruent, and when they involve explicit and falsifiable hypothesis testing.iii

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The effect of handling time on subsistence technology

Cited by 63 publications

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Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans

Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neanderthals and early modern humans

Gestión cinegética racional ligada a la praxis de la caza y la recolección. ¿Entelequia aristotélica o quimera?

The role of experimental knapping in empirically testing key themes in the evolution of lithic technology: reduction intensity, efficiency and behavioural complexity

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