Butchered and consumed: Small carnivores from the Holocene levels of El Mirador Cave (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)

Quaternary International

Volumn 353, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 153-169

  Martín, Patricia ^a,b   Saladié, Palmira ^a,b   Nadal, Jordi ^c   Vergès, Josep María ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; Carnivore consumption; Cut marks; El Mirador Cave; Human tooth marks; Neolithic

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; CARNIVORE; CAVE; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HOLOCENE; NEOLITHIC; SKELETAL REMAINS; TOOTH; WILD POPULATION;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA; SPAIN;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIS SILVESTRIS; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 84923200034     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.08.011     Document Type: Article

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