Spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) are large mammalian carnivores, but their societies,
called 'clans', resemble those of such cercopithecine primates as baboons and macaques …

Pleistocene level TD6-2 of the Gran Dolina site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain) is the result of
anthropogenic accumulation. Hominin groups occupied the cave as a home base, where …

The emergence of lithic technology by∼ 2.6 million years ago (Ma) is often interpreted as a
correlate of increasingly recurrent hominin acquisition and consumption of animal remains …

Plio-Pleistocene sites are a rare occurrence in same sites. This combination of factors is the
archaeological record. When they are unique in East African Plio-Pleistocene uncovered …

Elephants have fascinated humans for millennia. Aristotle wrote of them with awe; Hannibal
used them in warfare; and John Donne called the elephant “Nature's greatest masterpiece …

Scaling relationships between skeletal dimensions and body mass in extant birds are often
used to estimate body mass in fossil crown-group birds, as well as in stem-group avialans …

Gnawing from animal species is a common alteration to human bones and comes under
frequent forensic analysis in order to separate these effects from human-caused trauma and …

Zooarcheological research is an important tool in reconstructing subsistence, as well as for
inferring relevant aspects regarding social behavior in the past. The organization of hunting …

Assessing past foodways, subsistence strategies, and environments depends on the
accurate identification of animals in the archaeological record. The high rates of …

Economic utility indices provide a means of interpreting butchery and transport decisions
reflected in the relative abundance of skeletal elements. Because of destructive taphonomic …