Late Pleistocene Human Subsistence in Northern Africa: The State of our Knowledge and Placement in a Continental Context

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789400729285, 2012, Pages 107-125

  Steele, T E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaeozoology; Environment; Faunal analysis; Gazella; Hunting; Morocco; North Africa; Subsistence; Taphonomy; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045684277     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2929-2_8     Document Type: Chapter

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