Of Frogs and Men

September 24, 2009

Lower Pleistocene hominins involved in more than just passive scavenging

Filed under: Africa, Miscellaneous, News, Research — David Blackburn @ 11:05 am

New paper out in Journal of Human Evolution provides potential evidence from a Lower Pleistocene Olduvai Gorge site that hominins were engaged in more than just passive scavenging of small to medium-size mammal carcasses. Combined with information for early usage of fire by hominins in the Lower Pleistocene, there seems to be a gradually building case that hominins have been active modifiers of the African landscape for a very long time.

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