From Newsgroup: sci.anthropology.paleo


A bit on the long side, skip to the
interesting conclusion section.

https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nyas.15321

Early humans and the balance of power:
Homo habilis as prey

Abstract
It has been argued that Homo habilis was
responsible for the earliest episodes of
stone-tool making, animal butchery, meat
eating, and the reversal of the predatorrCoprey
relationship with carnivores. Assessing the
empirical foundation of these premises is of
utmost relevance to understanding the role that
H. habilis played in our evolution. A powerful
position for H. habilis, regarding
carnivorerCohominin interactions, requires that
this hominin could cope with predation hazards.
This should be reflected in bones of H. habilis
impacted by scavengers instead of flesh-eating
predators. Determining carnivore taxon-specific
agency on the modification of hominin bones is
crucial for solving this dichotomy. Artificial
intelligence (AI) tools, through computer vision
(CV) methods, have proven successful at
differentiating carnivore taxa using images of
bone surfacemodifications (BSMs). The application
of CV methods to the remains of the holotype and
other specimens of H. habilis documents with
unprecedented reliability that Olduvai Hominin
(OH) 7 and OH 65 were consumed by leopards. This
has consequences for our understanding of the role
played by H. habilis on the emergence of the
Oldowan archeological record, and of the evolution
of behaviors that led to a fully terrestrial
adaptation and a shift in the balance of power
between carnivorans and hominins.




https://olduvai-paleo.org/specimen/oh-7/

https://olduvai-paleo.org/specimen/oh-65/

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