Nutritional values of tortoises relative to ungulates from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa: Implications for foraging and social behaviour

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 33-47

  Thompson, Jessica C ^a   Henshilwood, Christopher S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anatomically modern humans; Chersina angulata; Gatherers; GIS; Pleistocene; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANATOMY; ARCHAEOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GIS; HUNTER-GATHERER; MESOLITHIC; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PLEISTOCENE; REPTILE; SKELETAL REMAINS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUBSISTENCE; UNGULATE;

BLOMBOS CAVE; SOUTH AFRICA; STILL BAY; WESTERN CAPE;

CHERSINA ANGULATA; MAMMALIA; TESTUDINIDAE; UNGULATA;

ANATOMICALLY MODERN HUMANS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL SHELL; ANTHROPOLOGY; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; BONE; CHERSINA ANGULATA; DIET; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSIL; GATHERERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PLEISTOCENE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; TURTLE; ZOOARCHAEOLOGY;

ANATOMICALLY MODERN HUMANS; CHERSINA ANGULATA; GATHERERS; GIS; PLEISTOCENE; ZOOARCHAEOLOGY;

ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTIODACTYLA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BONE AND BONES; DIET; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITIVE VALUE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA; TURTLES;

EID: 84893753040     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.09.010     Document Type: Article

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