Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Dictionary of Human Evolution and Biology

Scavenging Opportunity Theory

Proposal that older scavenging models were too speculative and that evidence suggests that early hominid land use resulted in scavenging opportunities; evidence of scavenging episodes by hominids can be found in African Plio-Pleistocene sites where tools and bones are found in situ, and the bones possess evidence of defleshing such as cut marks and hammer-and-anvil signatures made during marrow extraction. Aka Blumenschine scavenging theory.

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