Modern hunting behavior in the early Middle Paleolithic: Faunal remains from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 656-677

  Yeshurun, Reuven ^a   Bar Oz, Guy ^a   Weinstein Evron, Mina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hunting; Levant; Middle Paleolithic; Middle Pleistocene; Multivariate taphonomic approach; Skeletal element transport; Taphonomy; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

HUMAN EVOLUTION; HUNTING; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAPHONOMY;

ASIA; EURASIA; HAIFA [ISRAEL]; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; MOUNT CARMEL;

BOS PRIMIGENIUS; CERVIDAE; DAMA DAMA; DAMA MESOPOTAMICA; GAZELLA GAZELLA; UNGULATA;

EID: 36549037632     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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