Prehistoric seal hunting on Lake Baikal: Methodology and preliminary results of the analysis of canine sections

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 629-644

  Weber, Andrzej ^a   Goriunova, Olga I ^b   Konopatskii, Aleksandr K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Institute of Computational Technologies   (Russian Federation)

^c IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Canine sections; Dentine annuli; Lake Baikal; Seal hunting

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; HISTORICAL STUDIES; HUNTING ACTIVITY; METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; NEOLITHIC; SEAL HUNTING; TOOTH ANALYSIS;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, LAKE BAIKAL;

EID: 0027721704     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.1993.1038     Document Type: Article

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