Gravettian hunting and exploitation of bears in Central Europe

Quaternary International

Volumn 359, Issue , 2015, Pages 58-71

  Wojtal, Piotr ^a   Wilczyński, Jarosław ^a   Nadachowski, Adam ^b   Münzel, Susanne C ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Butchering marks; Cave bear hunting; Upper palaeolithic; Ursus arctos; Ursus spelaeus

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CAVE; EXPLOITATION; EXTINCTION; HUNTING; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC; SKELETAL REMAINS;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; CZECH REPUBLIC; CZESTOCHOWA [POLAND]; GERMANY; POLAND; SWABIAN ALB; HOHLE FELS CAVE;

URSUS ARCTOS; URSUS SPELAEUS;

EID: 84923573419     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.10.017     Document Type: Article

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