Mortality profiles of late pleistocene deer remains of Okinawa Island: Evidence from the Hananda-Gama cave and Yamashita-cho cave I sites

Anthropological Science

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 183-201

  Kubo, Mugino O ^a   Fujita, Masaki ^b   Matsu'ura, Shuji ^c   Kondo, Megumi ^c   Suwa, Gen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum   (Japan)

^c OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervus astylodon; Hunting; Mortality profiles; Pleistocene Okinawa; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053473919     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.091215     Document Type: Article

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