Paleoenvironmental and human behavioral implications of the Boegoeberg 1 late Pleistocene hyena den, northern Cape province, South Africa

Quaternary Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 393-403

  Klein, Richard G ^a   Cruz Uribe, Kathryn ^b   Halkett, David ^c   Hart, Tim ^c   Parkington, John E ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fossil brown hyenas; Later Stone Age; Middle Stone Age; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY;

BOEGOEBERG; NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE; SOUTH AFRICA;

ARCTOCEPHALUS PUSILLUS PUSILLUS; CANIS MESOMELAS; PARAHYAENA BRUNNEA; PHOCIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 0033395821     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1999.2068     Document Type: Article

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