Prey mortality profiles indicate that Early Pleistocene Homo at Olduvai was an ambush predator

Quaternary International

Volumn 322-323, Issue , 2014, Pages 44-53

  Bunn, Henry T ^a   Gurtov, Alia N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 84893830344     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.11.002     Document Type: Article

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