Mortality profiles of the large herbivores from the Lingjing Xuchang Man Site, Henan Province and the early emergence of the modern human behaviors in East Asia

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 3857-3863

  Zhang, ShuangQuan ^a,b   Li, ZhanYang ^c   Zhang, Yue ^a,b   Gao, Xing ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

Author keywords

Lingjing xuchang man Site; Middle palaeolithic; Modern human behaviors; Taphonomy; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS PRIMIGENIUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 71049138938     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0648-7     Document Type: Article

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