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Olduvai Gorge
Also known as: Olduvai basin
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Evidence for Meat-Eating by Early Humans | Learn Science at Scitable nature.com 12 facts
referenceHenry T. Bunn et al. investigated whether FLK North levels 1-2 at Olduvai Gorge represented a classic 'living floor' of Oldowan hominins or a taphonomically complex palimpsest dominated by large carnivore feeding behavior, as published in Quaternary Research 74(3), 355-362.
referenceS. D. Capaldo conducted experimental determinations of carcass processing by Plio-Pleistocene hominids and carnivores at the FLK 22 (Zinjanthropus) site in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, published in the Journal of Human Evolution 33, 555-597 (1997).
referenceM. M. Selvaggio analyzed carnivore tooth marks and stone-tool-butchery marks to provide evidence for scavenging by hominids at the FLK Zinjanthropus site in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in a 1994 Ph.D. dissertation at Rutgers University.
referenceR. J. Blumenschine et al. published 'Vertebrate taphonomic perspectives on Oldowan hominin land-use in the Plio-Pleistocene Olduvai basin, Tanzania' in the book 'Breathing Life into Fossils: Taphonomic Studies in Honor of C. K. (Bob) Brain', published by the Stone Age Institute Press in 2007.
referenceArchaeological evidence for meat-eating by Plio-Pleistocene hominids has been documented at sites in Koobi Fora and Olduvai Gorge, as detailed in Nature 291, 547-577 (1981).
referenceManuel Domínguez-Rodrigo used an experimental approach with cut-mark data to study meat-eating by early hominids at the FLK 22 Zinjanthropus site in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, published in the Journal of Human Evolution 33, 669-690 (1997).
referenceHenry T. Bunn analyzed patterns of skeletal representation and hominid subsistence activities at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and Koobi Fora, Kenya, in the Journal of Human Evolution 15, 673-690 (1986).
referenceR. J. Blumenschine published 'Percussion marks, tooth marks, and experimental determinations of the timing of hominid and carnivore access to long bones at FLK Zinjanthropus, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania' in the Journal of Human Evolution in 1995.
claimThe 'hunting or scavenging debate' in paleoanthropology centers on interpretations of the FLK 22 Zinjanthropus site at Olduvai Gorge, with hunting often implicitly viewed as behaviorally superior or more 'modern' than scavenging.
referencePickering et al. (2013) analyzed the taphonomy of ungulate ribs to demonstrate that 1.2-million-year-old hominins at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, consumed meat and bone.
referencePotts and Shipman (1981) identified cutmarks made by stone tools on bones found at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
measurementMultiple localities at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, dating to 1.8 million years ago, show evidence of in situ butchered mammal remains ranging in size from hedgehogs to elephants, associated with large numbers of stone tools.
Nutritional Evolution – Human Origin and Evolution ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in 2 facts
referenceBunn, H. T. (1981) published 'Archaeological evidence for meat-eating by Plio-Pleistocene hominids from Koobi Fora and Olduvai Gorge' in Nature, 291, 574-577.
referencePotts, R. and Shipman, P. (1981) published 'Cutmarks made by stone tools on bones from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania' in the journal Nature, volume 291, pages 577-580.
Changes in Diet Allegedly Drove Human Evolution answersingenesis.org Jan 12, 2013 2 facts
claimThe East African ecosystem in the Olduvai Gorge region transitioned abruptly between wet woodland and drier grassland during the early Pleistocene.
accountGraduate student Clayton Magill and professor Katherine Freeman analyzed carbon isotopes in fossilized leaf wax from early Pleistocene rock in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, to determine historical ecosystem transitions.
The role of Plant Foods in the evolution and Dispersal of early Humans kernsverlag.com Jul 30, 2022 1 fact
referenceH. T. Bunn reported archaeological evidence for meat-eating by Plio-Pleistocene hominids at Koobi Fora and Olduvai Gorge in a 1981 study published in Nature.
The Evolutionary Impact of Dietary Shifts on Physical and Cognitive ... ouci.dntb.gov.ua 1 fact
referenceSistiaga's research in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A (Vol 117, p. 24720) uses microbial biomarkers to reveal a hydrothermally active landscape at Olduvai Gorge 1.7 million years ago at the dawn of the Acheulean.