Several different strategies for obtaining animal resources in the late Middle Pleistocene: The case of level XII at Bolomor Cave (Valencia, Spain);Plusieurs stratégies différentes pour l'obtention de la nourriture à la fin du Pléistocène moyen: le cas du niveau XII de la Grotte du Bolomor (Valencia, Espagne)

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 171-184

  Blasco, Ruth ^a   Fernández Peris, Josep ^b   Rosell, Jordi ^a  

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

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bolomor Cave; Hunting; Middle Pleistocene; Multiple predation; Scavenging; Small prey; Spain; Subsistence strategies

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BODY SIZE; BONE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FAUNISTICS; LAGOMORPH; LIMB; PLEISTOCENE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SKELETON; UNGULATE; WATERFOWL;

BOLOMOR CAVE; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; SPAIN; VALENCIA [COMUNIDAD VALENCIA];

ANIMALIA; CYGNUS OLOR; EQUIDAE; EQUUS FERUS; HOMINIDAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 77955303658     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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