Summary 10.1002/9780470609880.ch8.abs This chapter contains sections titled: * Introduction * Hominid Exploitation of Wetlands Environments and Resources * Early Hominins: Colonization of New Environments * Plio-Pleistocene Climate Instability and Use of Wetlands Resources * Intensification of Wetlands Vegetation Exploitation * The Shift to High-Quality Foods * Preconditions for Encephalization * Precessional Forcing, Drying Lakes/Rivers, and Die-Offs of Aquatic Faunas * Mammal Meat: A Later Hominin Adaptation? * Postscript: H. heidelbergensis and H. sapiens * Summary * Acknowledgments * References
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