Changing exploitation of Terrestrial Vertebrates during the past 3000 years on Tobago, West Indies

Human Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 339-367

  Steadman, David W ^a   Stokes, Anne V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Southeastern Archaeological Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Hunting; Long term faunal change; Tobago; Tropical islands; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; EXPLOITATION; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HUNTING;

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

AGOUTI; AGOUTI PACA; ALOUATTA; ALOUATTA SENICULUS; ANURA; ARMADILLO; AVES; CHELONIIDAE; DIDELPHIDAE; MAMMALIA; PECARI TAJACU; REPTILIA; RODENTIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; TAYASSU; TAYASSUIDAE; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036723941     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016520602698     Document Type: Article

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