Fat residue use-wear found on Acheulian biface scraper associated with butchered elephant remains at the site of Revadim, Israel

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Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Solodenko, Natalya ^a   Zupancich, Andrea ^a   Cesaro, Stella Nunziante ^b   Marder, Ofer ^c   Lemorini, Cristina ^d   Barkai, Ran ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; FAT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MINERAL; CARCASS; ELEPHANT; HYDROLYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ISRAEL; NONHUMAN; PALEOLITHIC; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; RIB; SHOULDER; USE WEAR ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; CARNIVORY; DIET; HUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CARNIVORY; DIET; ELEPHANTS; FATS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; PALEONTOLOGY;

EID: 84925438700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118572     Document Type: Article

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