Testing the "shift in the balance of power" hypothesis at Swartkrans, South Africa: Hominid cave use and subsistence behavior in the Early Pleistocene

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 30-45

  Pickering, Travis Rayne ^a,b   Egeland, Charles P ^c   Domínguez Rodrigo, Manuel ^d   Brain, C K ^e   Schnell, Amy G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e Transvaal Museum   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Archaeofaunas; Carnivore ravaging; Hominid butchery; Swartkrans; Taphonomy; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 39749104811     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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