hunter-gatherers
Bison bones from Gran Dolina show butchery practices 400,000 years ago
Ancient people left a bone bed of bison killed in two seasons and butchered at the site with expedient tools.
What killing methods enabled Neandertals to hunt large prey animals?
A look at sites where ancient people killed many animals at once provides insight into their knowledge of the social behavior of prey animals.
Different transport strategies for different large prey species at Abric Romaní
Interpreting the record of prey exploitation at a rock shelter site over thousands of years provides a window into past economics.
High adult mortality in some contemporary hunter-gatherers
Kim Hill and colleagues (2007) report in the current Journal of Human Evolution on the mortality profile of recent Hiwi hunter-gatherers. Here is their abstract: > Extant apes experience early sexual maturity and short life spans relative to modern humans. Both of these traits and others are linked by life-history theory