Tables ......................................................... ix
Figures ........................................................ xi
Contributors ................................................. xiii
Introduction .................................................... i
1 Toward a scientific-realistic theory on the origin of human
behavior .................................................... 11
Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
PART I. ON THE USE OF ANALOGY I: THE EARLIEST MEAT EATERS
2 Conceptual premises in experimental design and their
bearing on the use of analogy: A critical example from
experiments on cut marks .................................... 47
Manuel Dominguez-Rodrigo
3 The use of bone surface modifications to model hominid
lifeways during the Oldowan ................................. 80
Charles P. Egeland
4 On early hominin meat eating and carcass acquisition
strategies: Still relevant after all these years? .......... 115
Karen D. Lupo
5 Meat foraging by Pleistocene African hominins: Tracking
behavioral evolution beyond baseline inferences of early
access to carcasses ........................................ 152
Travis Rayne Pickering and Henry T. Bunn
6 Can we use chimpanzee behavior to model early hominin
hunting? ................................................... 174
Travis Rayne Pickeсng and Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
PART II. ON THE USE OF ANALOGY II: THE EARLIEST STONE TOOLMAKERS
7 The origins of the Oldowan: Why chimpanzees (Pan
troglodytes) still are good models for technological
evolution in Africa ........................................ 201
Susana Carvalho and William McGrew
8 What does Oldowan technology represent in terms of
hominin behavior? .......................................... 222
David R. Braun
9 Testing cognitive skills in Early Pleistocene hominins:
An analysis of the concepts of hierarchization and
predetermination in the lithic assemblages of Type
Section (Peninj, Tanzania) ................................. 245
Fernando Diez-Martín, Felipe Cuartero, Policarpo Sánchez
Yustos, Javier Baena, Daniel Rubio, and Manuel Domínguez-
Rodrigo
10 The Early Acheulean in Africa: Past paradigms, current
ideas, and future directions ............................... 310
Fernando Diez-Martín and Metin I. Eren
Index ......................................................... 359
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