Oldest evidence of human activities in Madagascar on subfossil hippopotamus bones from Anjohibe (Mahajanga Province);Les plus anciennes traces d'activités anthropiques de Madagascar sur des ossements d'hippopotames subfossiles d'Anjohibe (Province de Mahajanga)

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 271-278

  Gommery, Dominique ^a   Ramanivosoa, Beby ^b   Faure, Martine ^c,d   Guérin, Claude ^c   Kerloc'h, Patrice ^b   Sénégas, Frank ^a   Randrianantenaina, Hervé ^b  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b Campus Universitaire d'Ambondrona   (Madagascar)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LUMIÈRE LYON 2   (France)

Author keywords

Cut marks; Human colonization; Human subfossil coexistence; Madagascar

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; BODY SIZE; BONE; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISLAND; PALEOECOLOGY; SUBFOSSIL; VERTEBRATE;

ANJOHIBE CAVE; MADAGASCAR; MAHAJANGA;

EID: 79956314804     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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