New data and ideas on the foraging behaviour of Early Stone Age hominids at Swartkrans Cave, South Africa
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Charles P. Egeland, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: New data and Interpretations presented in this paper update
and augment the previous state of knowledge of early hominid
subsistence behaviour at Swartkrans Cave during the formation of
the Member 3 depositional unit (c. 1.0 million years 8g0). Unlike
previous reconstructions of passive scavenging by early Pleistocene
hom In ids In the Sterkfontein Valley. our new data lead to an
Inference of early access by hominids to the carcasses of variously sized ungulates. Early access, In turn, suggests Swartkrans
hominids might have possessed the capabilities to hunt and/or
scavenge aggressively from primary carnivore predators by
c. 1.0 Myr, a pattern that is also increasingly apparent In the penecontemporaneous
archaeological record of other parts of Africa.
New data and ideas on the foraging behaviour of Early Stone Age hominids at Swartkrans Cave, South Africa
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Additional Information
- Publication
- South African Journal 01 Science 100, March/April 2004
- Language: English
- Date: 2004
- Keywords
- Early hominids, Carnivores, Swartkrans Member 3, Butchery, Hunting, Scavenging