The abundance of eland, buffalo, and wild pigs in Middle and Later Stone Age sites

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 309-314

  Weaver, Timothy D ^a   Steele, Teresa E ^a   Klein, Richard G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; PIG; STONE AGE; WILD POPULATION;

SUIDAE; TRAGELAPHUS ORYX;

EID: 79751533099     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.05.003     Document Type: Article

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