Pleistocene survivors and Holocene extinctions: The giant rats from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia)

Quaternary International

Volumn 281, Issue , 2012, Pages 47-57

  Locatelli, Elisa ^a,d   Due, Rokus Awe ^b   Van den Bergh, Gert D ^c,d   Van den Hoek Ostende, Lars W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b National Research and Development Centre for Archaeology   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; DIET; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MAMMAL; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; TAXONOMY;

EAST NUSA TENGGARA; FLORES [LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS]; INDONESIA; LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; LIANG BUA; SUNDA ISLES;

CRICETOMYS EMINI; MURIDAE; PAPAGOMYS ARMANDVILLEI; PAPAGOMYS THEODORVERHOEVENI; SPELAEOMYS FLORENSIS;

EID: 84868356025     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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