Carcass transport decisions in Homo antecessor subsistence strategies

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 425-446

  Saladié, Palmira ^a,b   Huguet, Rosa ^a,b   Díez, Carlos ^c   Rodríguez Hidalgo, Antonio ^a,b,d   Cáceres, Isabel ^a,b   Vallverdú, Josep ^a,b   Rosell, Jordi ^a,b   Bermúdez De Castro, José María ^e   Carbonell, Eudald ^a,b,f  

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

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^d Equipo Primeros Pobladores de Extremadura Casa de la Cultura Rodríguez Moñino ^*  (Spain)

^e CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Anatomical profiles; Archaic homo; Differential transport; Hunting; Pleistocene; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARCHAEOLOGY; HOMINID; HUNTING; PLEISTOCENE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TAPHONOMY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; HOMO ANTECESSOR; MAMMALIA;

EID: 80052264842     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.05.012     Document Type: Article

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