Nutritional ecology and the human demography of Neandertal extinction

Quaternary International

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-34

  Hockett, Bryan ^a   Haws, Jonathan A ^b  

^a Elko Field Office Bureau of Land Management   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION; NEANDERTHAL; NUTRITION; PALEOECOLOGY;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 18244406528     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2004.11.017     Document Type: Article

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