The fossil Bovidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel: Out of Africa during the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 375-386

  Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido ^a   Rabinovich, Rivka ^b  

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

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acheulian dispersal; African fauna; Bos; Levantine Corridor

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; NEW RECORD; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHIC BOUNDARY;

GESHER BENOT YA'AQOV; ISRAEL; NORTHERN DISTRICT;

ARTIODACTYLA; BISON; BOS SP.; BOVIDAE; BOVINAE; BOVINI; CROCUTA CROCUTA; ELEPHAS ANTIQUUS; GAZELLA SP.; MAMMALIA; PANTHERA; PANTHERA LEO; PANTHERA PARDUS; PELOROVIS;

EID: 79952359805     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

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