Intrinsic qualities of primate bones as predictors of skeletal element representation in modern and fossil carnivore feeding assemblages

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 431-450

  Carlson, Kristian J ^a   Pickering, Travis Rayne ^b,c  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Baboon; Bone cross sectional area; Bone lenght; Bone mineral density; Bone volume; Leopard; Spotted hyena; Swartkrans; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

BONE; CARNIVORE; FEEDING; PREDATION; PRIMATE; SIZE; SKELETON; TAPHONOMY;

SOUTH AFRICA; SWARTKRANS CAVE;

ANIMALIA; CROCUTA CROCUTA; PANTHERA PARDUS; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES; SCATOPHAGUS ARGUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE; BONE DENSITY; CARNIVORA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; PAPIO; PREDATION; PRIMATE; REFERENCE VALUE;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; CARNIVORA; DIET; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS; PAPIO; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PRIMATES; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0038205748     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(03)00025-3     Document Type: Article

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