87Sr/86Sr ratios in modern and fossil food-webs of the Sterkfontein Valley: Implications for early hominid habitat preference

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 62, Issue 14, 1998, Pages 2463-2473

  Sillen, Andrew ^a   Hall, Grant ^a   Richardson, Stephen ^a   Armstrong, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Habitat selection; Hominidae; Isotopic analysis; Paleoecology; South Africa

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALEOECOLOGY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0032460323     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00182-3     Document Type: Article

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