Arroyo del Vizcaíno, Uruguay: A fossil-rich 30-ka-old megafaunal locality with cut-marked bones

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1774, 2013, Pages

  Fariña, Richard A ^a   Tambusso, P Sebastián ^a   Varela, Luciano ^a   Czerwonogora, Ada ^a   Di Giacomo, Mariana ^a   Musso, Marcos ^a   Bracco, Roberto ^a   Gascue, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Bonebed; Megafauna; Peopling; Quaternary; South America; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BONE; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MORTALITY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; TAPHONOMY; TOOL USE; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BONE; BONEBED; CHRONOLOGY; FOSSIL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MEGAFAUNA; PEOPLING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUATERNARY; SLOTH; SOUTH AMERICA; SURFACE PROPERTY; TAPHONOMY; URUGUAY;

BONEBED; MEGAFAUNA; PEOPLING; QUATERNARY; SOUTH AMERICA; TAPHONOMY;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; BONE AND BONES; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; FOSSILS; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SLOTHS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; URUGUAY;

ARROYO DEL VIZCAINO; CANELONES [URUGUAY]; SOUTH AMERICA; URUGUAY;

EID: 84902665485     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2211     Document Type: Article

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