The Evolution of the Human Trophic Level During the Pleistocene

TL;DR — A review arguing humans were high-trophic-level carnivores for most of the Pleistocene.

How much weight it carries: A peer-reviewed review article (Yearbook of Physical Anthropology). It synthesizes many lines of evidence into an argument; it is not a single decisive study, and the conclusion is contested in the field.

What is in it

First page: received 22 July 2020, accepted 19 January 2021, DOI 10.1002/ajpa.24247, authors from Tel Aviv University’s Department of Archaeology. Only the first page was read.

Where this came from

• https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24247 — The article’s DOI (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2021). The DOI record was confirmed with Crossref on 2026-10-12.