Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia

2010/08/01 by Shannon P. McPherron, Zeresenay Alemseged, Curtis W. Marean +6 · 14 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Primate Behavior and Ecology

paper · doi:10.1038/nature09248

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• Examining the suitability of extant primates as models of hominin stone tool culture
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