Public release date: 25-Oct-2009
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Zooarchaeological perspective on the hominid meat-eating in the Chinese terminal late Pleistocene

Animal bones are the most direct clues to reconstruct the ancient hominids’ meat-eating behaviors. In the Sep. 9 issue of science in China Series D: Earth sciences archaeologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology have studied the animal bones unearthed from the Ma’anshan Paleolithic site by zooarchaeological method and found that there were differences of the meat-eating behaviors between the earlier and the later hominid groups at the site.

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