Nitecki Matthew H., Nitecki Doris V. (eds.) The Evolution of Human Hunting

Proceedings of the Field Museum of Natural History Ninth Annual Spring Systematics Symposium on the Evolution of Human Hunting, held May 10, 1986, in Chicago, Illinois. — New York: Plenum Press, 1987. — 464 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4684-8835-7.The successful early adaptations of man involve a complex interplay of biological and cultural factors. There is a rapidly growing number of paleontologists and paleoanthropologists who are concerned with hominid foraging and the evolution of hunting. New techniques of paleoanthropology and taphonomy, and new information on human remains are added to the traditional approaches to the study of past human hunting and other foraging behavior. There is also a resurgence of interest in the early peopling of the New World. The present book is the result of the Ninth Annual Spring Systematics 10, 1986, in the Symposium, on the Evolution of Human Hunting, held on May Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.The idea of human hunting (Matthew H. Nitecki).
Reconstructing how early people exploited animals: problems and prospects (Richard G. Klein).
Were there elephant hunters at Torralba? (Lewis R. Binford).
Bodies, brawn, brains and noses: human ancestors and human predation (Erik Trinkaus).
Hunting in late Upper Paleolithic Western Europe (Lawrence Guy Straus).
Prehistoric, plains-mountain, large-mammal, communal hunting strategies (George C. Frison).
Analysis of kill-butchery bonebeds and interpretation of Paleoindian hunting (Lawrence C. Todd).
The Pleistocene archaeology of Beringia (Richard E. Morlan).
Mastodont procurement by Paleoindians of the Great Lakes region: hunting or scavenging? (Daniel C. Fisher).
Taphonomy and hunting (Anna K. Behrensmeyer).