A new species of bull from the Early Pleistocene paleoanthropological site of Buia (Eritrea): Parallelism on the dispersal of the genus Bos and the Acheulian culture

Quaternary International

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-175

  Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido ^a   Rook, Lorenzo ^b   Papini, Mauro ^b   Libsekal, Yosief ^c  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c National Museum of Eritrea   (Eritrea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; DISPERSAL; NEW GENUS; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE;

ERITREA;

BISON; BOS PRIMIGENIUS; PELOROVIS;

EID: 75249105440     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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