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[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/027841659090010B by Mary C. Stiner 12/1990 ScienceDirect] | [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/027841659090010B by Mary C. Stiner 12/1990 ScienceDirect] | ||
Mortality patterns in archaeofaunas can be informative of prehistoric human foraging habits, land use, and, ultimately, evolutionary changes in hominid sociality and ecological niche. The analytical value of mortality patterns is only as great, however, as archaeologists' understanding of the full range of possible causes for patterns in these data. | Mortality patterns in archaeofaunas can be informative of prehistoric human foraging habits, land use, and, ultimately, evolutionary changes in hominid sociality and ecological niche. The analytical value of mortality patterns is only as great, however, as archaeologists' understanding of the full range of possible causes for patterns in these data. | ||
=====Olorgesailie Drilling Project===== | |||
[https://humanorigins.si.edu/research/east-african-research-projects/olorgesailie-drilling-project by Smithsonian] | |||
In the Oct. 21 issue of the journal Science Advances, an interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Richard Potts, director of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, describes the prolonged period of instability across the landscape in this part of Africa (now Kenya) that occurred at the same time humans in the region were undergoing a major behavioral and cultural shift in their evolution. | |||
