Animal Exploitation Strategies during the Uluzzian at Grotta di Fumane (Verona, Italy)

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789400767652, 2013, Pages 129-150

  Tagliacozzo, Antonio ^a   Romandini, Matteo ^b   Fiore, Ivana ^a   Gala, Monica ^a   Peresani, Marco ^b  

^a Soprintendenza al Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L Pigorini   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anatomically modern humans; Aurignacian; Hunting; Ibex; Mousterian; Neanderthals; Red deer; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896729051     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6766-9_8     Document Type: Chapter

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