Multiproxy Paleoecology: Reconstructing Evolutionary Context in Paleoanthropology

A Companion to Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 203-225

  Reed, Kaye E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary paleoecology; Fauna; Multiproxy paleoecology; Paleoanthropology; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887051454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118332344.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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