Robert J. Blumenschine - Publications

Affiliations: 
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States 
Area:
Archaeology Anthropology, Paleoecology, Paleontology

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2020 Stollhofen H, Stanistreet IG, Toth N, Schick KD, Rodríguez-Cintas A, Albert RM, Farrugia P, Njau JK, Pante MC, Herrmann EW, Ruck L, Bamford MK, Blumenschine RJ, Masao FT. Olduvai's oldest Oldowan. Journal of Human Evolution. 150: 102910. PMID 33271475 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102910  0.779
2020 Pante M, Torre I, d'Errico F, Njau J, Blumenschine R. Bone tools from Beds II-IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology. Journal of Human Evolution. 148: 102885. PMID 33049586 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102885  0.797
2019 Merritt SR, Pante MC, Keevil TL, Njau JK, Blumenschine RJ. Don't cry over spilled ink: Missing context prevents replication and creates the Rorschach effect in bone surface modification studies Journal of Archaeological Science. 102: 71-79. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2018.07.003  0.773
2018 Albert R, Bamford M, Stanistreet I, Stollhofen H, Rivera-Rondón CA, Njau J, Blumenschine R. River-fed wetland palaeovegetation and palaeoecology at the HWK W site, Bed I, Olduvai Gorge Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 259: 223-241. DOI: 10.1016/J.Revpalbo.2018.09.010  0.707
2017 Pante MC, Muttart MV, Keevil TL, Blumenschine RJ, Njau JK, Merritt SR. A new high-resolution 3-D quantitative method for identifying bone surface modifications with implications for the Early Stone Age archaeological record. Journal of Human Evolution. 102: 1-11. PMID 28012460 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2016.10.002  0.783
2015 Pante MC, Scott RS, Blumenschine RJ, Capaldo SD. Revalidation of bone surface modification models for inferring fossil hominin and carnivore feeding interactions Quaternary International. 355: 164-168. DOI: 10.1016/J.Quaint.2014.09.007  0.77
2012 Blumenschine RJ, Stanistreet IG, Njau JK, Bamford MK, Masao FT, Albert RM, Stollhofen H, Andrews P, Prassack KA, McHenry LJ, Fernández-Jalvo Y, Camilli EL, Ebert JI. Environments and hominin activities across the FLK Peninsula during Zinjanthropus times (1.84 Ma), Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution. 63: 364-83. PMID 22440745 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2011.10.001  0.733
2012 Pante MC, Blumenschine RJ, Capaldo SD, Scott RS. Validation of bone surface modification models for inferring fossil hominin and carnivore feeding interactions, with reapplication to FLK 22, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution. 63: 395-407. PMID 22192864 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2011.09.002  0.785
2012 Blumenschine RJ, Masao FT, Stollhofen H, Stanistreet IG, Bamford MK, Albert RM, Njau JK, Prassack KA. Landscape distribution of Oldowan stone artifact assemblages across the fault compartments of the eastern Olduvai Lake Basin during early lowermost Bed II times. Journal of Human Evolution. 63: 384-94. PMID 21945135 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2011.05.003  0.651
2012 Njau JK, Blumenschine RJ. Crocodylian and mammalian carnivore feeding traces on hominid fossils from FLK 22 and FLK NN 3, Plio-Pleistocene, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution. 63: 408-17. PMID 21937084 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2011.05.008  0.689
2012 Ungar PS, Krueger KL, Blumenschine RJ, Njau J, Scott RS. Dental microwear texture analysis of hominins recovered by the Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Project, 1995-2007. Journal of Human Evolution. 63: 429-37. PMID 21784504 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2011.04.006  0.692
2012 D'Amore DC, Blumenschine RJ. Using striated tooth marks on bone to predict body size in theropod dinosaurs: A model based on feeding observations of Varanus komodoensis, the Komodo monitor Paleobiology. 38: 79-100. DOI: 10.1666/09079.1  0.449
2010 Brochu CA, Njau J, Blumenschine RJ, Densmore LD. A new horned crocodile from the Plio-Pleistocene hominid sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Plos One. 5: e9333. PMID 20195356 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0009333  0.685
2010 Pante MC, Blumenschine RJ. Fluvial transport of bovid long bones fragmented by the feeding activities of hominins and carnivores Journal of Archaeological Science. 37: 846-854. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2009.11.014  0.76
2009 Louchart A, Wesselman H, Blumenschine RJ, Hlusko LJ, Njau JK, Black MT, Asnake M, White TD. Taphonomic, avian, and small-vertebrate indicators of Ardipithecus ramidus habitat. Science (New York, N.Y.). 326: 66e1-4. PMID 19810192 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1175823  0.761
2009 D'Amore DC, Blumenschine RJ. Komodo monitor (Varanus komodoensis) feeding behavior and dental function reflected through tooth marks on bone surfaces, and the application to ziphodont paleobiology Paleobiology. 35: 525-552. DOI: 10.1666/0094-8373-35.4.525  0.469
2008 Stollhofen H, Stanistreet IG, McHenry LJ, Mollel GF, Blumenschine RJ, Masao FT. Fingerprinting facies of the Tuff IF marker, with implications for early hominin palaeoecology, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 259: 382-409. DOI: 10.1016/J.Palaeo.2007.09.024  0.377
2008 Blumenschine RJ, Masao FT, Tactikos JC, Ebert JI. Effects of distance from stone source on landscape-scale variation in Oldowan artifact assemblages in the Paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania Journal of Archaeological Science. 35: 76-86. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2007.02.009  0.354
2007 Blumenschine RJ, Prassack KA, Kreger CD, Pante MC. Carnivore tooth-marks, microbial bioerosion, and the invalidation of Domínguez-Rodrigo and Barba's (2006) test of Oldowan hominin scavenging behavior. Journal of Human Evolution. 53: 420-6. PMID 17727916 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2007.01.011  0.676
2006 Njau JK, Blumenschine RJ. A diagnosis of crocodile feeding traces on larger mammal bone, with fossil examples from the Plio-Pleistocene Olduvai Basin, Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution. 50: 142-62. PMID 16263152 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2005.08.008  0.754
2003 Blumenschine RJ, Peters CR, Masao FT, Clarke RJ, Deino AL, Hay RL, Swisher CC, Stanistreet IG, Ashley GM, McHenry LJ, Sikes NE, Van Der Merwe NJ, Tactikos JC, Cushing AE, Deocampo DM, et al. Late Pliocene Homo and hominid land use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Science (New York, N.Y.). 299: 1217-21. PMID 12595689 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1075374  0.651
2002 Deocampo DM, Blumenschine RJ, Ashley GM. Wetland diagenesis and traces of early hominids, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania Quaternary Research. 57: 271-281. DOI: 10.1006/Qres.2001.2317  0.363
2000 Madrigal TC, Blumenschine RJ. Preferential processing of high return rate marrow bones by Oldowan hominids: A comment on Lupo Journal of Archaeological Science. 27: 739-741. DOI: 10.1006/Jasc.1999.0497  0.397
1998 Blumenschine RJ, Peters CR. Archaeological predictions for hominid land use in the paleo-Olduvai Basin, Tanzania, during lowermost Bed II times Journal of Human Evolution. 34: 565-607. PMID 9650101 DOI: 10.1006/Jhev.1998.0216  0.451
1996 Blumenschine RJ, Marean CW, Capaldo SD. Blind tests of inter-analyst correspondence and accuracy in the identification of cut marks, percussion marks, and carnivore tooth marks on bone surfaces Journal of Archaeological Science. 23: 493-507. DOI: 10.1006/Jasc.1996.0047  0.462
1995 Peters CR, Blumenschine RJ. Landscape perspectives on possible land use patterns for Early Pleistocene hominids in the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania Journal of Human Evolution. 29: 321-362. DOI: 10.1006/Jhev.1995.1062  0.39
1995 Blumenschine RJ. Percussion marks, tooth marks, and experimental determinations of the timing of hominid and carnivore access to long bones at FLK Zinjanthropus, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania Journal of Human Evolution. 29: 21-51. DOI: 10.1006/Jhev.1995.1046  0.499
1994 Capaldo SD, Blumenschine RJ. A Quantitative Diagnosis of Notches Made by Hammerstone Percussion and Carnivore Gnawing on Bovid Long Bones American Antiquity. 59: 724-748. DOI: 10.2307/282345  0.479
1994 Blumenschine RJ. Competition for carcasses and early hominid behavioral ecology: A case study and conceptual framework Journal of Human Evolution. 27: 197-213. DOI: 10.1006/Jhev.1994.1042  0.317
1993 Blumenschine RJ, Madrigal TC. Variability in Long Bone Marrow Yields of East African Ungulates and its Zooarchaeological Implications Journal of Archaeological Science. 20: 555-587. DOI: 10.1006/Jasc.1993.1034  0.476
1992 Marean CW, Spencer LM, Blumenschine RJ, Capaldo SD. Captive hyaena bone choice and destruction, the Schlepp effect and olduvai archaeofaunas Journal of Archaeological Science. 19: 101-121. DOI: 10.1016/0305-4403(92)90009-R  0.453
1991 Blumenschine RJ. Hominid carnivory and foraging strategies, and the socio-economic function of early archaeological sites Philosophical Transactions - Royal Society of London, B. 334: 211-221. PMID 1685579 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.1991.0110  0.385
1991 Blumenschine RJ, Masao FT. Living sites at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania? Preliminary landscape archaeology results in the basal Bed II lake margin zone Journal of Human Evolution. 21: 451-462. DOI: 10.1016/0047-2484(91)90095-D  0.301
1989 Blumenschine RJ. A landscape taphonomic model of the scale of prehistoric scavenging opportunities Journal of Human Evolution. 18: 345-371. DOI: 10.1016/0047-2484(89)90036-5  0.485
1988 Blumenschine RJ, Selvaggio MM. Percussion marks on bone surfaces as a new diagnostic of hominid behaviour Nature. 333: 763-765. DOI: 10.1038/333763A0  0.505
1988 Blumenschine RJ. An experimental model of the timing of hominid and carnivore influence on archaeological bone assemblages Journal of Archaeological Science. 15: 483-502. DOI: 10.1016/0305-4403(88)90078-7  0.508
1987 Blumenschine RJ, Bunn HT, Geist V, Ikawa-Smith F, Marean CW, Payne AG, Tooby J, van der Merwe NJ. Characteristics of an Early Hominid Scavenging Niche [and Comments and Reply] Current Anthropology. 28: 383-407. DOI: 10.1086/203544  0.399
1986 Bunn HT, Kroll EM, Ambrose SH, Behrensmeyer AK, Binford LR, Blumenschine RJ, Klein RG, McHenry HM, O'Brien CJ, Wymer JJ. Systematic Butchery by Plio/Pleistocene Hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania [and Comments and Reply] Current Anthropology. 27: 431-452. DOI: 10.1086/203467  0.661
1986 Blumenschine RJ. Carcass consumption sequences and the archaeological distinction of scavenging and hunting Journal of Human Evolution. 15: 639-659. DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(86)80002-1  0.362
1981 Mink JW, Blumenschine RJ, Adams DB. Ratio of central nervous system to body metabolism in vertebrates: its constancy and functional basis. The American Journal of Physiology. 241: R203-12. PMID 7282965 DOI: 10.1152/Ajpregu.1981.241.3.R203  0.302
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