Hiding to eat: The role of carnivores in the early Middle Pleistocene from the TD8 level of Gran Dolina (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3373-3386

  Blasco, Ruth ^a,b   Rosell, Jordi ^a,b   van der Made, Jan ^c   Rodríguez, Jesús ^d   Campeny, Gerard ^a,b   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^e,f   Bermúdez de Castro, José María ^d   Carbonell, Eudald ^a,b,g  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

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

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

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

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Gran Dolina; Middle Pleistocene; Taphonomy; TD8

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOACCUMULATION; CARNIVORE; COPROLITE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLEISTOCENE; PREDATOR; SCAVENGER; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAXONOMY; TOOTH;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; GRAN DOLINA; SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA; SPAIN;

DAMA; DAMA DAMA; UNGULATA;

EID: 80054094293     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.07.023     Document Type: Article

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