Brief communication: Predatory bird damage to the Taung type-skull of Australopithecus africans Dart 1925

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 166-168

  Berger, Lee R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Hominin paleontology; Paleoanthropology; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; COTE D'IVOIRE; EAGLE; NONHUMAN; ORBIT; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SKULL; TAPHONOMY;

ANIMALS; EAGLES; FOSSILS; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; PALEONTOLOGY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SKULL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 33748644000     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20415     Document Type: Article

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