Additional vertebrate remains from one of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Kurnool Caves (Muchchatla Chintamanu Gavi) of South India

Quaternary International

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-51

  Patnaik, Rajeev ^a   Badam, G L ^b   Murty, M L K ^c  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts   (India)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIRD; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; REPTILE; SKELETAL REMAINS; SMALL MAMMAL;

ANDHRA PRADESH; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KURNOOL; SOUTH ASIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANTILOPE; AVES; BANDICOTA BENGALENSIS; BUBALUS; BUFO MELANOSTICTUS; EQUUS; GALLUS GALLUS; GAZELLA; HYSTRIX (MAMMAL); LAGOMORPHA; LEPUS SP.; MAMMALIA; MILLARDIA KATHLEENAE; RATTUS RATTUS; REPTILIA; RHINOCEROS; RODENTIA; SERPENTES; VARANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 56249126475     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.06.018     Document Type: Article

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