Large carnivores and earliest European hominids: changing determinants of resource availability during the Lower and Middle Pleistocene

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 109-126

  Turner, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

earliest European occupation; hominid dispersion; larger carnivore guild; scavenging

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; DISPERSION; HOMINID; MAMMAL; PLEISTOCENE; SCAVENGING;

EUROPE;

EID: 0026448727     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0047-2484(92)90033-6     Document Type: Article

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