FOCUS: on the use of the petrous bone for estimating cranial abundance in fossil assemblages

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1356-1360

  Bar Oz, Guy ^a   Dayan, Tamar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Braincase; Cranium; Petrous; Skeletal part representation; Taphonomy; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; BODY SIZE; BONE; CRANIUM; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; SKELETAL REMAINS; SKULL; TAPHONOMY; ZOOLOGY;

LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CRANIA;

EID: 34447103172     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.10.021     Document Type: Article

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