The Homo habitat niche: Using the avian fossil record to depict ecological characteristics of Palaeolithic Eurasian hominins

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1525-1532

  Finlayson, Clive ^a,b   Carrión, José ^c   Brown, Kimberly ^a   Finlayson, Geraldine ^a   Sánchez Marco, Antonio ^d   Fa, Darren ^a   Rodríguez Vidal, Joaquín ^e   Fernández, Santiago ^c   Fierro, Elena ^c   Bernal Gómez, Marco ^a   Giles Pacheco, Francisco ^a  

^a Gibraltar Museum   (Gibraltar)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Avian fossil record; Eurasia; Human evolution; Palaeoecology; Palaeolithic; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EURASIA; FOSSIL RECORDS; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PALAEOECOLOGY; PALAEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE;

FORESTRY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; DATABASE; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; HUNTER-GATHERER; NICHE; PALEARCTIC REGION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SAVANNA; WOODLAND;

AVES;

EID: 79957639100     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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