Zooarchaeological perspectives on the Chinese Early and Late Paleolithic from the Ma'anshan site (Guizhou, South China)

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2066-2077

  Zhang, Yue ^a,b,c   Stiner, Mary C ^d   Dennell, Robin ^e   Wang, Chunxue ^a,b   Zhang, Shuangquan ^a,b   Gao, Xing ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone surface modifications; Chinese Paleolithic; Ma'anshan site; Mortality patterns; Skeletal element representation; Species abundance; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; BONE; CAVE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MORTALITY; PALEOLITHIC; SKELETAL REMAINS; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CHINA; GUIZHOU;

ANIMALIA; AVES; RATTUS;

EID: 77953963283     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

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