The carnivore guild from the Late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene of the Italian peninsula: Which implications for the prehistoric human peopling?;Les carnivores du Pliocène supérieur et du Pléistocène de la péninsula italienne: Quelles implications pour le peuplement humain?

Revue de Paleobiologie

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 597-609

  Mussi, Margherita ^a   Palombo, Maria Rita ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carnivores guild; Human settlement; Italy; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

CANIDAE; FELIDAE; LYCAON; MEGANTEREON;

EID: 17744366575     PISSN: 02536730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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