The last of its kind? Radiocarbon, ancient DNA and stable isotope evidence from a late cave bear (Ursus spelaeus ROSENMÜLLER, 1794) from Rochedane (France)

Quaternary International

Volumn 339-340, Issue , 2014, Pages 179-188

  Bocherens, Hervé ^a   Bridault, Anne ^b   Drucker, Dorothée G ^a   Hofreiter, Michael ^c   Münzel, Susanne C ^a   Stiller, Mathias ^d   van der Plicht, Johannes ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Inrap)   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BONE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CAVE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SKELETAL REMAINS; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACE FOSSIL;

FRANCE;

URSUS; URSUS SPELAEUS;

EID: 84904688512     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.05.021     Document Type: Article

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