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MEAT-EATING &
HUMAN EVOLUTION
THE HUMAN EVOLUTION SERIES
Editors
Russell Ciochon, University of Iowa
Bernard Wood, George Washington University
EDITED BY
Craig B. Stanford & Henry T. Bunn
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Contributors xi
Introduction 3
Craig B. Stanford
Henry T. Bunn
8 The Other Faunivory: Primate Insectivory and Early Human Diet 160
William C. McGrew
Index 361
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Contributors
XI
xii Contributors
Craig B. Stanford
Henry T. Bunn
M;I ore than 30 years after the publication of Man the Hunter, the
role of meat in the early human diet remains a central topic of human
evolutionary research. There is little doubt that meat-eating became increasingly
important in human ancestry, despite the lack of direct evidence in the fossil record
of how meat was obtained, or how much was eaten, or how often, or how exactly
increasing importance of meat-eating may have contributed to the rise of the genus
Homo. Although the fossil evidence is becoming clearer on these issues, we still
lack key evidence about early hominid behavioral ecology. Information about meat-
eating patterns from modern nonhuman primates, from modern foraging people,
and from the fossil record could all contribute to a clearer picture of early human-
ity than we have at present.
With this goal in mind, a workshop was held October 2-5, 1998, on the campus of
the University of Wisconsin, Madison. "The Early Human Diet: The Role of Meat,"
sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, brought
together 18 participants representing several subfields of human origins research.
Papers were presented at the workshop by Michael Alvard, Henry Bunn, Robert Foley,
Kristen Hawkes, William McGrew, Katharine Milton, Travis Pickering, John Rick,
Lisa Rose, Margaret Schoeninger, Jeanne Sept, John Speth, Craig Stanford, Mary Stiner,
Martha Tappen, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Alan Walker, and Bruce Winterhalder.
Why publish a volume on meat-eating at this time? Despite its importance in the
evolutionary ecology of the Hominidae, scholars from different disciplines have
only rarely gathered to discuss the topic. Few of the contributors to this volume
had sat in the same group to discuss the crosscutting aspects of their work before
the Madison workshop. Most of the participants work in the field of biological
anthropology or archaeology; lack of intellectual crossfertilization may simply re-
flect increasing specialization within the discipline.
3
4 Introduction
Each era in the study of human behavioral origins has treated meat-eating in its
own way, based on the most reasonable interpretations of the available data. Since
Raymond Dart (1953), reconstructions of early hominid behavior have revolved
around dietary issues, due to the recognition that among many social animals in-
cluding nonhuman primates, social behavior and grouping patterns are profoundly
influenced by the need to balance energy output with nutrient energy intake. The
diet of most higher primates consists largely of leaves and fruit, and foraging for
these consumes most of each day. Including a highly concentrated packet of nutri-
ents and calories, such as meat represents, may have provided emerging humans
with a key nutritional supplement that favored the evolution of other key traits, such
as cognition.
From the 1960s until the early 1980s, consideration of meat-eating generally
focused on the importance of hunting to early human social patterns (Washburn
and Lancaster 1968; Tiger and Fox 1971; Suzuki 1975; Lovejoy 1981; Hill 1982;
Tooby and DeVore 1987). In this earlier era, the most influential and ultimately
infamous body of theory related to meat-eating was Man the Hunter. The idea that
hunting was the seminal behavior accounting for the expansion of the human brain
neocortex and higher intelligence emerged from a conference of the same name
held in April, 1966, in Chicago. About 75 scholars gathered to discuss the behavior
and status of foraging people ("hunter-gatherers") in the world at that time. The
volume that followed, edited by Richard Lee and Irven DeVore, included a chapter
by Sherwood Washburn and Chet Lancaster entitled "The Evolution of Hunting,"
in which Washburn and Lancaster hypothesized that hunting was among the most
fundamental of human behavioral adaptations. They proposed that the importance
of communicating and coordinating big game hunting placed a premium on intel-
ligence and the expansion of the brain's neocortex. Because hunting is primarily a
male activity in modern, and presumably ancient, human societies, this would have
accounted for the large size of the human brain in males. By ignoring the role of
females in the evolution of human brain size, Washburn and Lancaster unleashed a
firestorm of criticism. Some anthropologists (e.g., Tanner and Zihlmann 1976) took
issue with the assumption that meat composed a substantial or important portion of
the early human diet. Others argued that a predatory view of human cognitive ori-
gins was rooted in male-biased science. Ironically, the consensus of opinion at the
Man the Hunter conference was that meat is of relatively little nutritional impor-
tance in the diets of the same modern tropical foragers.
The legacy of Man the Hunter was long-lasting in academic discussions of meat-
eating and human origins. The debate may have even accounted in part for the rise
of feminist theory in anthropology in the 1970s (Stanford 1999). The backlash
against Man the Hunter led many anthropologists to reject hunting as an important
subsistence mode among early hominids and led others to reject meat-eating as an
important part of the early human diet.
Beginning in the 1980s, the hunting paradigm fell victim to reinterpretations of
archaeological sites, which suggested that the cooperative, predatory tendencies of
early humans had been misinterpreted. Data from Plio-Pleistocene sites were in-
creasingly interpreted as evidence of meat procurement by scavenging rather than
by hunting (Binford 1981; Isaac and Crader 1981; Shipman 1986; Blumenschine
Introduction 5
1987; Potts 1988). Bunn (1982) and Bunn and Kroll (1986) advocated both scav-
enging of large ungulate carcasses and hunting of smaller prey based on their analysis
of Plio-Pleistocene material from Olduvai Gorge. Some early advocates of the
importance of scavenging (Howell 1968; Schaller and Lowther 1969) had pro-
posed this behavior as an adjunct to hunting, but for the more recent work scav-
enging was often proposed as the primary or even sole means of carcass acquisi-
tion. Shipman and Potts (1981) and Shipman (1986) showed that some Pliocene
bone assemblages had unambiguous evidence of hominid cutmarks made on top
of carnivore toothmarks, supporting a scavenging foraging mode for early genus
Homo. Binford (1981) took the most extreme view, rejecting the possibility that
any taxon of hominid prior to earliest Homo sapiens would have had the cognitive
capacity for cooperative hunting or food-sharing. Isaac's seminal (1978) work on
food acquisition and food-sharing among early hominids was part of a movement
to consider the Pliocene past by use of analogy with the better-understood present.
During the workshop we returned time and again to Isaac's ideas and agreed that
his food-sharing model, put aside during the rush to "dehumanize" early hominids
during the 1980s, accords as well with field data today as it did then.
In the 1990s, a more balanced view of hunting and scavenging has prevailed,
which this volume attempts to represent. The current perspective has been based
on research in the three areas covered by this volume: meat-eating by nonhuman
primates and their analogs, meat-eating by modern foragers, and evidence of meat-
eating in the fossil record. There is a growing consensus among researchers study-
ing the fossil record that earlier dichotomies between hunting and scavenging were
simplistic and ultimately false. This perspective was evident at the Wenner-Gren
workshop, in which the long-standing debate over the occurrence and importance
of hunting and scavenging by early hominids was rarely at issue. There is a recog-
nition today that this dichotomy has eroded with the collection of data from a vari-
ety of research sites. Thus, Blumenschine's (1986) argument for an exclusive
scavenging niche based on a reconstruction of the ecology of Pliocene Serengeti
was extremely valuable, but no longer accords well with data from reconstructions
of hominid behavioral ecology from other habitats (e.g., Tappen, this volume). There
are no obligate scavengers among living mammals; carnivores from lions to hy-
enas typically acquire meat by either hunting or scavenging as the opportunity arises.
Bunn and Ezzo (1993) and Bunn (this volume) argue for a mode of hominid sub-
sistence based on the opportunistic hunting and pirating ("power scavenging") of
large mammalian carcasses in a manner that resembles what many carnivores do
today. This does not mean that passive scavenging might not have been important
in some periods and among some taxa in hominid evolution; only that the strict
hunting versus scavenging debate of the 1980s seems to have given way to a more
realistically complex view of Pliocene hominid behavioral ecology.
Some definitions are in order before we proceed further with a discussion of meat-
eating. First, by meat-eating we refer to the consumption of vertebrate fauna (but
6 Introduction
see McGrew, this volume, for invertebrate faunivory), including muscle, viscera,
the skeleton, and associated body tissues. "Meat" is thus more properly referred to
as "carcass biomass," but for purposes of this volume it is understood that meat-
eating encompasses all body tissues. The nutrient and caloric values of mamma-
lian carcasses have been studied by a range of scholars in fields ranging from bio-
chemistry and nutritional sciences to archaeology, and for an equal variety of
reasons. This volume contains a number of chapters that discuss the nutrient and
caloric properties of meat but none that examines in detail the biochemical basis
for meat as a valuable nutrient source (that is, the amino acids, fats, etc., contained
in a carcass). This is perhaps a necessary failing in that all the chapters herein ac-
cept the (admittedly incomplete) received wisdom about why carnivores and om-
nivores live on diets that are partially or wholly the meat of other animals.
We include both scavenged carcasses and hunted live prey when discussing meat-
eating as a dietary/behavioral adaptation. Considering these as separate foraging
modes makes sense, even though there are no living mammals that do one without
at least sometimes also doing the other.
The lines of evidence that were presented at the conference encompassed the
three fields below, with many chapters crosscutting two or more of these. In addi-
tion, two theoretical issues directly related to meat-eating in human evolution were
included that did not fall neatly into any of the three areas below.
that the fossil record provides of extinct taxa. Because it is in most cases extremely
fragmentary, the fossil record can deceive us into accepting a single, well-documented
site as representative of a species' biology. Chimpanzee behavioral diversity across
wide geographic areas, due to both ecological influences and local cultural tra-
ditions, offers an important lesson for students of early hominid behavioral ecol-
ogy. Chimpanzee behaviors from tool use to hunting techniques to grooming styles
vary from population to population. Likewise, we should expect that a species of
Australopithecus or early Homo may have been an avid scavenger of large carcasses
at one site and an avid hunter but not a scavenger at a contemporaneous site 100 km
away. Chapters in this volume by `McGrew, Rose, and Schoeninger et al. present
ideas and data related to the consumption of meat by nonhuman primates.
We need not limit ourselves to primates when attempting to reconstruct the be-
havior and ecology of the earliest hominids. Van Valkenburgh reconstructs Pliocene
African ecosystems in which early Homo would have been one component and,
using data on diet and body weight, argues that feeding competition from other,
larger, meat-eating species would have been major factors in the behavioral ecol-
ogy of these taxa.
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