Questions about the timing, frequency, resource yield, and behavioral and biological implications of large animal carcass acquisition by early hominins have been a part of the ?hunting-scavenging debate? for decades. This article presents a brief outline of this debate, reviews the zooarchaeological and modern ecological evidence for a possible scavenging niche among the earliest animal tissue-consuming hominins (pre-2.0 Ma), revisits some of the questions that this debate has generated, and outlines some ways to explore answers to those questions with evidence from the archaeological record.

Notes:

doi: 10.1002/evan.21824

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evan.21824

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21824

Short Title: Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews

Export: