Ecological change and the extinction of the Levantine Neanderthals: Implications from a diachronic study of micromammals from Amud Cave, Israel

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 3196-3209

  Belmaker, Miriam ^a,b   Hovers, Erella ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The College of William and Mary   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amud Cave; Last Glacial; Levant; Micromammals; Neanderthals; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

LAST GLACIAL; LEVANT; MICROMAMMALS; NEANDERTHALS; PALEOECOLOGY;

CAVES; ECOLOGY; MAMMALS; PRODUCTIVITY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

DIACHRONISM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HEINRICH EVENT; LAST GLACIAL; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC; PALEONTOLOGY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RODENT; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAPHONOMY;

ISRAEL; LEVANT; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NETHERLANDS;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84860390080     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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