Neandertal mobility and large-game hunting: The exploitation of reindeer during the Quina Mousterian at Chez-Pinaud Jonzac (Charente-Maritime, France)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 624-635

  Niven, Laura ^a,h   Steele, Teresa E ^a,b   Rendu, William ^c   Mallye, Jean Baptiste ^d,e   McPherron, Shannon P ^a   Soressi, Marie ^a,f,g   Jaubert, Jacques ^d   Hublin, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

^f INRAP CIF   (France)

^g Inrap)   (France)

^h NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Europe; Late Pleistocene; Middle Paleolithic; Rangifer tarandus; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; DEER; EXPLOITATION; HOMINID; HUNTER-GATHERER; HUNTING; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MOBILITY; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS;

CHARENTE MARITIME; FRANCE; POITOU-CHARENTES;

ANTIRHEA; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS; RANGIFER TARANDUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 84865863017     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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