Preferential processing of high return rate marrow bones by Oldowan hominids: A comment on Lupo

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 739-741

  Madrigal, T Cregg ^a   Blumenschine, Robert J ^a  

^a Center for Human Evolutionary Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone marrow; Caloric return rates; Olduvai Gorge; Scavenging; Skeletal part profiles

Indexed keywords

BONE; NUTRITION;

OLDUVAI GORGE; TANZANIA;

EID: 0033865974     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.1999.0497     Document Type: Article

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