Man and megafauna in Tasmania: Closing the gap

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue , 2012, Pages 38-47

  Gillespie, Richard ^a,b   Camens, Aaron B ^c   Worthy, Trevor H ^d   Rawlence, Nicolas J ^c,e   Reid, Craig ^f   Bertuch, Fiona ^g   Levchenko, Vladimir ^g   Cooper, Alan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^f Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery   (Australia)

^g AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Collagen; Extinction; Megafauna; Radiocarbon

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEPOSITS; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN MEGAFAUNA; C:N RATIO; KARST AREAS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MEGAFAUNA; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON; RADIOCARBON AGE; TEMPORAL OVERLAP;

CHARCOAL; LIGHT EXTINCTION;

COLLAGEN;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CHRONOLOGY; COLLAGEN; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUNTING; MARSUPIAL; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SKELETAL REMAINS;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

MACROPUS GIGANTEUS;

EID: 84857794168     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.01.013     Document Type: Article

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