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Hunting Lesions in Pleistocene and Early Holocene European Bone Assemblages and Their Implications for Our Knowledge on the Use and Timing of Lithic Projectile Technology

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This paper presents a review of our current state of knowledge about hunting lesions in faunal assemblages from Pleistocene and early Holocene contexts. Differences in the character of hunting lesions throughout the Pleistocene and early Holocene are described. This evidence is contextualized against the archaeological record and its potential for assertions on human hunting tactics is outlined. From the evidence considered here a relatively late onset of lithic projectile technology in human evolution can be implied, which was regularly in use no earlier than the Late Glacial period.

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The author would like to thank Radu Iovita (MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre for Human Behavioural Evolution, Germany) and Katsuhiro Sano (University of Tokyo, Japan) for the invitation to contribute a survey on hunting lesions to this volume. The author’s thanks go Olaf Jöris, Paul Pettitt, John Speth and two anonymous reviewers for valuable insights, comments and inspiration and to Regina Hecht (MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre for Human Behavioural Evolution, Germany) who was responsible for the figures of this contribution. The MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural examines the historical processes of the evolution of human behaviour through the contextualised and interdisciplinary study of Pleistocene and early Holocene material remains. Research at MONREPOS follows a structured research strategy which constitutes the interface between chronology and chorology, adaptive strategies and social networks and provides the synergies necessary for understanding the process of becoming human. This paper is an integral part of research devoted to hominin behavioural strategies connected to the evolution of human diet.

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Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S. (2016). Hunting Lesions in Pleistocene and Early Holocene European Bone Assemblages and Their Implications for Our Knowledge on the Use and Timing of Lithic Projectile Technology. In: Iovita, R., Sano, K. (eds) Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7602-8_6

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