From carcass to cave: Large mammal exploitation during the Aurignacian at Vogelherd, Germany

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 362-382

  Niven, Laura ^a,b  

^a Forschungsbereich Altsteinzeit   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aurignacian; Early modern humans; Europe; Large mammals; Taphonomy; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CAVE; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; DATA SET; FAUNA; MAMMAL; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAPHONOMY;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; VOGELHERD CAVES;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS FERUS; MAMMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 34548585657     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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