A view to a kill Investigating Middle Palaeolithic subsistence using an Optimal Foraging perspective

• Main Author: Dusseldorp, Gerrit L. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2009
• Subjects: Prehistoric archaeology; prehistoric archaeology; neanderthal; early hominids; hunting; palaeolithic
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

The sophistication of Neanderthal behavioural strategies have been the subject of debate from the moment of their recognition as a separate species of hominin in 1856. This book presents a study on Neanderthal foraging prowess. Novel ethnographic and primatological insights, suggest that increasing...