Publisher's Synopsis
Understanding early hominid behavioural ecology remains a core issue in modern-day anthropology. This book offers the latest research in this field, with new approaches to old questions. The central topics explored in this book include: early hominid habitat preference and land use; procurement and processing of food and lithic materials; the use of fire; competitive interactions with carnivores; and social organization and cognitive skills. Innovative methods and recent data are presented and aim to provide a fuller understanding of the evolutionary ecology of Plio-pleistocene hominids.;Most of the contributions to this volume are based on papers presented at the Early Hominid Behavioural Ecology symposium, held at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in Toronto, 1993.
