Past Event
Thursday, May 13, 2021, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Living Room Lecture: Hominins, Hyenas, Lions
All over the world from, San Diego
The shift to increased meat consumption is one of the major adaptive changes in hominin dietary evolution and likely had important repercussions for the behavior of our early hominin ancestors. Meat-eating by hominins is well documented at Early Pleistocene (Oldowan) archaeological sites in East Africa by butchery marks on bones. While it is established that Oldowan hominins butchered mammal carcasses, there has been disagreement about whether these carcasses were hunted or scavenged, as well as disagreement about the nature of competition between hominins and large carnivores. This San Diego Archaeological Center event will be held on Zoom. Cost: Pay what you wish.