Late Pleistocene-Holocene non-passerine avifauna of Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia)

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 877-894

  Meijer, Hanneke J M ^a,b,e   Sutikna, Thomas ^c,d   Saptomo, E Wahyu ^c   Awe, Rokhus Due ^c   Jatmiko, ^c   Wasisto, Sri ^c   James, Helen F ^a   Morwood, Michael J ^d   Tocheri, Matthew W ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^e INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; AVIFAUNA; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SKELETAL REMAINS;

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

EID: 84879659764     PISSN: 02724634     EISSN: 19372809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.746941     Document Type: Article

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