Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- I. Meat-Eating and the Fossil Record -- 1 Deconstructing the Serengeti -- 2 Taphonomy of the Swartkrans Hominid Postcrania and Its Bearing on Issues of Meat-Eating and Fire Management -- 3 Neandertal Hunting and Meat-Processing in the Near East: Evidence from Kebara Cave (Israel) -- 4 Modeling the Edible Landscape -- II. Living Nonhuman Analogs for Meat-Eating -- 5 The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Carnivores: A Review of Past and Present Carnivore Community Dynamics -- 6 A Comparison of Social Meat-Foraging by Chimpanzees and Human Foragers -- 7 Meat and the Early Human Diet: Insights from Neotropical Primate Studies -- 8 The Other Faunivory: Primate Insectivory and Early Human Diet -- 9 Meat-Eating by the Fourth African Ape -- III. Modern Human Foragers -- 10 Hunting, Power Scavenging, and Butchering by Hadza Foragers and by Plio-Pleistocene Homo -- 11 Is Meat the Hunter's Property?: Big Game, Ownership, and Explanations of Hunting and Sharing -- 12 Specialized Meat-Eating in the Holocene: An Archaeological Case from the Frigid Tropics of High-Altitude Peru -- 13 Mutualistic Hunting -- 14 Intragroup Resource Transfers: Comparative Evidence, Models, and Implications for Human Evolution -- IV. Theoretical Considerations -- 15 The Evolutionary Consequences of Increased Carnivory in Hominids -- 16 Neonate Body Size and Hominid Carnivory -- Conclusions: Research Trajectories on Hominid Meat-Eating -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.