Hominid-carnivore interactions in the Paleolithic site of Qafzeh cave, Israel

Revue de Paleobiologie

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 627-637

  Rabinovich, Rivka ^a   Bar Yosef, Ofer ^b   Vandermeersch, Bernard ^c   Horwitz, Liora Kolska ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Hyaenas; Levant; Middle and Upper Paleolithic; Qafzeh Cave; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; CAVE DEPOSIT; HOMINID; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOLITHIC; TAPHONOMY;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

HOMINIDAE; HYAENA;

EID: 17744393627     PISSN: 02536730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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