The role of carnivores and their relationship to hominin settlements in the TD6-2 level from Gran Dolina (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 93, Issue , 2014, Pages 47-66

  Saladié, Palmira ^a,b,c   Rodríguez Hidalgo, Antonio ^a,b,d   Huguet, Rosa ^a,b   Cáceres, Isabel ^a,b   Díez, Carlos ^e   Vallverdú, Josep ^a,b   Canals, Antoni ^a,b,d   Soto, María ^a,b   Santander, Boris ^a,b,c   Bermúdez de Castro, José María ^f   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^g,h   Carbonell, Eudald ^a,b,i  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c GQP CG   (Portugal)

^d Equipo Primeros Pobladores de Extremadura   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^f CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^h INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Cannibalism; Carnivore ravaging; Carnivore tooth marks; Competition; Human tooth marks

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPETITION;

CANNIBALISM; CARNIVORE RAVAGING; CARNIVORE TOOTH MARKS; CO-OCCURRENCE; EQUIFINALITY; HUMAN TEETHS; LARGE AMOUNTS; LARGE PARTS; HUMAN REMAINS;

CARTILAGE;

BONE; CANNIBALISM; CARNIVORE; HOMINID; SKELETAL REMAINS; TAPHONOMY; TOOTH; UNGULATE; CAVE SYSTEM; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN EVOLUTION; PLEISTOCENE;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; GRAN DOLINA; SPAIN;

UNGULATA;

EID: 84899088192     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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