Methodological recommendations for ungulate mortality analyses in paleoanthropology

Quaternary Research

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 388-394

  Bunn, Henry T ^a   Pickering, Travis Rayne ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Age frequency distributions; Bovidae; Early hominin foraging; Uniformitarianism

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE INFERENCE; ANIMAL REMAINS; BOVIDAE; EARLY HOMININ FORAGING; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; LIFE HISTORY STAGES; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PROFILING SYSTEMS; SIZE CLASS; UNIFORMITARIANISM; WEAR PATTERN;

MAMMALS;

ACCUMULATION; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; FAUNA; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOMINID; MORTALITY; PALEONTOLOGY; PREDATION; PREY PREFERENCE; TOOTH; UNGULATE; WEAR;

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 78649333714     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.07.013     Document Type: Article

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