Homo vs. Pachycrocuta: Earliest evidence of competition for an elephant carcass between scavengers at Fuente Nueva-3 (Orce, Spain)

Quaternary International

Volumn 295, Issue , 2013, Pages 113-125

  Espigares, Ma Patrocinio ^a   Martínez Navarro, Bienvenido ^b,c,d   Palmqvist, Paul ^e   Ros Montoya, Sergio ^a   Toro, Isidro ^f   Agustí, Jordi ^b,c,d   Sala, Robert ^c,d  

^a Museo de Prehistoria y Paleontologia   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^e Facultad de Medicina   (Spain)

^f Museo Arqueológico de Granada   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ELEPHANT; HOMINID; PLEISTOCENE;

ANDALUCIA; GRANADA [ANDALUCIA]; ORCE; SPAIN;

PACHYCROCUTA;

EID: 84876727090     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.09.032     Document Type: Article

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