ABSTRACT
A quick browse of the internet comes up with over a hundred websites connected to the word "man-eater." There is even a book entitled Man-eaters that "explores the wide world of man-eaters—creatures who regard Homo sapiens as just another noon-day snack." The Sundarbans delta of the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers—a huge area of over 3,800 square miles of mangrove forest and islands that spans both India and Bangladesh—is notorious for its man-eating tigers. The idea of hominids as scavengers, rather than the more traditional vignette of humans as big-game hunters, also has been advanced by Pat Shipman at Johns Hopkins University. Shipman suggests that Man the Scavenger is not nearly as attractive an image as Man the Hunter, but hominid-made cut marks that overlay carnivore-made tooth marks occur on the same fossil bones.
