Evidence for dietary change but not landscape use in South African early hominins

Nature

Volumn 489, Issue 7417, 2012, Pages 558-560

  Balter, Vincent ^a   Braga, José ^b   Télouk, Philippe ^a   Thackeray, J Francis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; CALCIUM; DIETARY SHIFT; ENAMEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENERALIST; HOME RANGE; HOMINID; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LASER METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE BREADTH; PALEOECOLOGY; SPECIALIZATION; STRONTIUM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FOOD; FOSSIL HOMININ; HOMINID; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALS; BARIUM; CALCIUM; CARNIVORY; CATTLE; DENTAL ENAMEL; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; HERBIVORY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; SOUTH AFRICA; STRONTIUM; TOOTH;

SOUTH AFRICA;

AUSTRALOPITHECUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS AFRICANUS; PARANTHROPUS; PARANTHROPUS ROBUSTUS;

EID: 84866948370     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11349     Document Type: Article

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