The results of the present study show that by the early Pleistocene, hominins were already inserted in the carnivore guild. Their regular access to fleshed carcasses invalidates hypotheses positing the kleptoparasitic role of these ancestors. Like any other predator, hominins would have exploited avail...
that hominids were primary agents of carcass exploitation. Meat seems to have been an important part of Plio-Pleistocene hominid diets. Passive scavenging scenarios show that this kind of opportunistic strategy cannot afford significant meat yields. Therefore, the hunting hypothesis has not yet been ...
This provides new evidence for hominid occupation in North China in the earliest Pleistocene. The earliest hominids are argued to have lived in a habitat of open grasslands mixed with patches of forests close to the bank of the Nihewan paleolake as indicated from faunal compositions. Hominid ...
(ape-like) life cycle for fossil hominins, in comparison with a slow, long and drawn out human pattern. But much of the evidence against a human-like pattern is somewhat indirect. For instance,Holly Smith (1991)has shown that there’s a pretty tight relationship between brain size and age...
WOOD BA, AIELLO LC (1998) Taxonomic and functional implications of mandibular scaling in early hominins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 105, 523-538.Wood, B., Aiello L.C., 1998. Taxonomic and functional implications of mandibular scaling in early hominids. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. ...
From all of the above it becomes clear that the dispersals of early hominins in the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene into Eurasia were essentially sporadic. Little geographic and temporal continuity is observed between the various dated archaeological contexts, and the lithic assemblages do not demon...
The paleoenvironments of early hominins in the Omo Shungura Formation (Plio-Pleistocene, Ethiopia) : synthesizing multiple lines of evidence using phylogen... Ever since Darwin claimed that expanding savannas were the driving force behind humanity's divergence from other apes, our understanding of hu...
Fossils of early hominins have been found exclusively in Africa. While the australopiths only spread within Africa, members of the genus Homo were the first to leave their home continent, roughly 2 million years ago, thus expanding their settlement area
This is particularly true of two predator groups, the large cats and hominins. Cats are rare in much of the African and Eurasian fossil record, even when it is very likely that they were present in an area (Turner, 1990, Turner, 1995). While their presence is of course indicative of ...
The earliest dates on the Omo I skeleton were quite controversial--they were uranium-series age estimates onEtheriafreshwater mollusk shells that provided a date of 130,000 years ago, which in the 1960's was deemed too early forHomo sapiens. Serious questions arose in the latter half of the...