Contents

• Introduction / Craig B. Stanford and Henry T. Bunn
• I. Meat-Eating and the Fossil Record. 1. Deconstructing the Serengeti / Martha Tappen. 2. Taphonomy of the Swartkrans Hominid Postcrania and Its Bearing on Issues of Meat- Eating and Fire Management / Travis R. Pickering. 3. Neandertal Hunting and Meat-Processing in the Near East: Evidence from Kebara Cave (Israel) / John D. Speth and Eitan Tchernov. 4. Modeling the Edible Landscape / Jeanne Sept
• II. Living Nonhuman Analogs for Meat-Eating. 5. The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Carnivores: A Review of Past and Present Carnivore Community Dynamics / Blaire Van Valkenburgh. 6. A Comparison of Social Meat-Foraging by Chimpanzees and Human Foragers / Craig B. Stanford. 7. Meat and the Early Human Diet: Insights from Neotropical Primate Studies / Lisa M. Rose. 8. The Other Faunivory: Primate Insectivory and Early Human Diet / William C. McGrew. 9. Meat-Eating by the Fourth African Ape / Margaret J. Schoeninger, Henry T. Bunn and Shawn Murray / [et al.]
• III. Modern Human Foragers. 10. Hunting, Power Scavenging, and Butchering by Hadza Foragers and by Plio- Pleistocene Homo / Henry T. Bunn. 11. Is Meat the Hunter’s Property?: Big Game, Ownership, and Explanations of Hunting and Sharing / Kristen Hawkes. 12. Specialized Meat -Eating in the Holocene: An Archaeological Case from the Frigid Tropics of High-Altitude Peru / John W. Rick and Katherine M. Moore. 13. Mutualistic Hunting / Michael S. Alvard. 14. Intragroup Resource Transfers: Comparative Evidence, Models, and Implications for Human Evolution / Bruce Winterhalder
• IV. Theoretical Considerations. 15. The Evolutionary Consequences of Increased Carnivory in Hominids / Robert A. Foley. 16. Neonate Body Size and Hominid Carnivory / Natalia Vasey and Alan Walker
• Conclusions: Research Trajectories on Hominid Meat-Eating / Henry T. Bunn and Craig B. Stanford