All posts tagged with meat

The bison bone bed at Gran Dolina

4 minute read

In an earlier post, I looked at work by Mark White, Paul Pettitt, and Danielle Schreve, which considered evidence for Neandertal prey selectivity at five sit...

Neandertal slaughters

6 minute read

Back in 2016, Mark White, Paul Pettitt and Danielle Schreve published an interesting analysis in which they compared how Neandertals hunted and butchered ani...

Notable: Female chimpanzees eat more meat when pregnant

1 minute read

Notable: O’Malley, R. C., Stanton, M. A., Gilby, I. C., Lonsdorf, E. V., Pusey, A., Markham, A. C., & Murray, C. M. (2016). Reproductive state and rank i...

Notable: Fat residues on elephant-butchering tools

2 minute read

Notable paper: Solodenko N, Zupancich A, Cesaro SN, Marder O, Lemorini C, et al. (2015) Fat Residue and Use-Wear Found on Acheulian Biface and Scraper Associ...

Slow cooking Neandertal subsistence

6 minute read

During the past couple of years, new evidence has really shifted our view of Neandertal diet. Even three years ago, it was not unusual to hear Neandertals de...

Panda gestion

less than 1 minute read

Here’s a story that showed up in my feed this morning: “Prehistoric man ate panda, claims scientist”.

Orangutan loris capture and meat-eating

2 minute read

Madeleine Hardus and colleagues Hardus:2012 describe long-term observations of hunting by Sumatran orangutans.