Looking for problems: A systems approach to hominin palaeocommunities from plio-pleistocene africa

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 460-493

  Winder, I C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Faunal assemblage analysis; Hominin palaeoecology; Palaeocommunities; Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864834790     PISSN: 1047482X     EISSN: 10991212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oa.1219     Document Type: Article

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