Birds as indicators of high biodiversity zones around the Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel

Quaternary International

Volumn 421, Issue , 2016, Pages 23-31

  Sánchez Marco, Antonio ^a   Blasco, Ruth ^b   Rosell, Jordi ^c,d   Gopher, Avi ^e   Barkai, Ran ^e  

^a INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEONTOLOGIA MIQUEL CRUSAFONT   (Spain)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

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

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Eastern Mediterranean region; Fossil birds; Paleoenvironmental reconstruction; Paleozoogeography; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BONE; FOSSIL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

CENTRAL DISTRICT; ISRAEL; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; QESEM CAVE;

AVES;

EID: 84949257142     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.001     Document Type: Article

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