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n recent decades, a significant number of Pleistocene (ca. 2.6 million years-10,000 years ago) open- air and cave sites yielding elephant or mammoth bones in direct association with hominin remains and/or lithic artifacts have been discovered in Eurasia, Africa and America. Many of them show strong evidence of acquisition and processing of proboscidean carcasses by early humans, leading scientists to interpret them as "elephant butchering sites". Indeed, proboscidean exploitation by early Homo has been proposed to have been critical for Palaeolithic human lifeways, influencing not only their subsistence, but also other aspects of early human evolution and adaptations. The nature and degree of interactions between humans and elephants comprises an important field in palaeoanthropological studies since decades, but many questions remain still unanswered or partially explored.

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Book category Books in German Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik Geschichte Altertum

• Full title: Human-elephant interactions: From past to present
• Author: Vangelis Tourloukis, George Konidaris, Ran Barkai
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 488
• EAN: 9783947251339
• ISBN: 3947251335
• ID: 36708739
• Publisher: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Universitätsbibliothek
• Weight: 1524 g
• Dimensions: 303 × 215 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. July 2021

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