In the elephant, everything is good: Carcass use and re-use at Castel di Guido (Italy)

Quaternary International

Volumn 361, Issue , 2015, Pages 288-296

  Boschian, Giovanni ^a   Saccà, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bone tool; Elephant; Italy; Middle pleistocene; Recycling

Indexed keywords

BOS PRIMIGENIUS; ELEPHANTIDAE; EQUIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84923548305     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.04.030     Document Type: Article

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