Body size reduction in wild boar (Sus scrofa) from the late Pleistocene Maehira Fissure Site in Okinawa-jima Island, Japan, with relevance to human arrival

Quaternary International

Volumn 339-340, Issue , 2014, Pages 289-299

  Fujita, Masaki ^a   Yamasaki, Shinji ^a   Sugawara, Hiroshi ^b   Eda, Masaki ^c  

^a Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum   (Japan)

^b Educational Board of Urasoe City   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extinction; Human migration; Island; Late Pleistocene; Ryukyu Archipelago; Vertebrate fauna

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIGRATION; PIG; PLEISTOCENE; TOOTH;

JAPAN; OKINAWA ISLAND; OKINAWA ISLANDS; OKINAWA [RYUKYU ISLANDS]; RYUKYU ISLANDS;

AVES; CERVIDAE; CERVUS; GASTROPODA; SUS SCROFA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84904667526     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.04.043     Document Type: Article

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