Recent elephant-carcass utilization as a basis for interpreting mammoth exploitation

Quaternary International

Volumn 359-360, Issue , 2015, Pages 19-37

  Haynes, Gary ^a   Klimowicz, Janis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BONE; EXPLOITATION; MAMMOTH; PALEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC;

EID: 84923585005     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.040     Document Type: Article

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