Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Contributors VII
4. 1. Introduction 1
5. 2. Diet and Human Evolution 10
6. 3. To What Extent Were Early Hominids Carnivorous? An Archaeological Perspective 37
7. 4. The Fat of the Land: Notes on Paleolithic Diet in Iberia 104
8. 5. Later Stone Age Subsistence at Byeneskranskop Cave, South Africa 166
9. 6. An Order of Omnivores: Nonhuman Primate Diets in the Wild 191
10. 7. Diet and the Evolution of Feeding Strategies among Forest Primates 215
11. 8. Processes and Products of Change: Baboon Predatory Behavior at Gilgil, Kenya 255
12. 9. The Omnivorous Diet and Eclectic Feeding Habits of Chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania 303
13. 10. Subsistence and Ecological Adaptations of Modern Hunter/Gatherers 344
14. 11. Comparative Ecology of Food-Sharing in Australia and Northwest California 422
15. 12. Hunter/Gatherers of the Central Kalahari 455
16. 13. The Cultural Ecology of Hunting Behavior among Mbuti Pygmies in the Ituri Forest, Zaire 499
17. 14. Late Pleistocene Extinction and Human Predation: A Critical Overview 556
18. References 595
19. Index 669