Dietary plasticity in ungulates: Insight from tooth microwear analysis

Quaternary International

Volumn 245, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 279-284

  Rivals, Florent ^a,b,c   Semprebon, Gina M ^d  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

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

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^d Bay Path College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; DIET; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; TOOTH; UNGULATE;

ANIMALIA; BISON; BISON ANTIQUUS; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 82755187112     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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