Large Mammal Skeletal Element Transport: Applying Foraging Theory in a Complex Taphonomic System

By Curtis W. Marean, N. Cleghorn. 2003

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On meat eating and human evolution: A taphonomic analysis of BK4b (Upper Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania), and its bearing on hominin megafaunal consumption (2014, unknown): “Axial elements, as noted earlier, are comparatively low-density and thus are more vulnerable to destruction, whereas crania and appendicular elements are more likely to survive and can be informative about foragers’ transport and butchery decisions (Marean and Cleghorn, 2003).”
Gazelle bone fat processing in the Levantine Epipalaeolithic (2005, background): “007 reconstruct human extractive efforts especially in the face of diminishing returns [14,19,20,35,65,67,76,93].”
The prey as patch model: optimal handling of resources with diminishing returns (2005, background): “Archaeological applications of foraging theory have focused on the prey-choice (or diet-breadth) model with a focus on understanding the range of items that enter the diet and/ or how they are transported [24,26,37,42,44,45] but, with few exceptions (e.”