Not one but two mammoth hunting strategies in the Gravettian of the Pavlov Hills area (southern Moravia)

Quaternary International

Volumn 337, Issue , 2014, Pages 80-89

  Brugère, Alexis ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Age profile; Central Europe; Gravettian; Hunting strategies; Upper Palaeolithic; Woolly Mammoth

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BONE; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HUNTING; MAMMOTH; PALEOLITHIC; TOOTH; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; EXPLOITATION; FAUNA; HUNTER-GATHERER; RECONSTRUCTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SKELETAL REMAINS;

CZECH REPUBLIC; MORAVIA;

MAMMUTHUS PRIMIGENIUS;

EID: 84903185912     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.05.016     Document Type: Article

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