The Bovid assemblage (Bovidae, Mammalia) from the Early Pleistocene site of 'Ubeidiya, Israel: Biochronological and paleoecological implications for the fossil and lithic bearing strata

Quaternary International

Volumn 267, Issue , 2012, Pages 78-97

  Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido ^a   Belmaker, Miriam ^b   Bar Yosef, Ofer ^c  

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

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHRONOLOGY; FAUNA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LITHIC FRAGMENT; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; RUMINANT;

ISRAEL;

BISON; BOVIDAE; BOVINI; GAZELLA GAZELLA; GAZELLA SP.; MAMMALIA; ORYX;

EID: 84862874652     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.02.041     Document Type: Article

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