Configurational approach to identifying the earliest hominin butchers
Configurational approach to identifying the earliest hominin butchers
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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English
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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The announcement of two approximately 3.4-million-y-old purportedly butchered fossil bones from the Dikika paleoanthropological research area (Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia) could profoundly alter our understanding of human evolution. Butchering damage on the Dikika bones would imply that tool-assisted meat-eating began approximately 800,000 y befor...
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Configurational approach to identifying the earliest hominin butchers
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_817163950
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_817163950
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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10.1073/pnas.1013711107
