Late Pleistocene Crocuta crocuta spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) populations from the Emscher River terrace open air hyena den near Bottrop and other sites in NW Germany: Their bone accumulations along rivers in lowland mammoth steppe environments and scavenging activities on woolly rhinoceros

Quaternary International

Volumn 276-277, Issue , 2012, Pages 93-119

  Diedrich, Cajus G ^a  

^a PaleoLogic   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BONE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MAMMAL; MAMMOTH; MOUNTAIN REGION; PATHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SCAVENGING (FEEDING); TAPHONOMY;

EMSCHER RIVER; GERMANY; MUNSTERLAND; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA; SAUERLAND;

ANIMALIA; COELODONTA ANTIQUITATIS; CROCUTA CROCUTA; MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS; RHINOCEROS; URSUS SPELAEUS;

EID: 84867631222     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.07.046     Document Type: Article

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