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Lions as Bone Accumulators? Paleontological and Ecological Implications of a Modern Bone Assemblage...

Lions as Bone Accumulators? Paleontological and Ecological Implications of a Modern Bone Assemblage...

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Lions as Bone Accumulators? Paleontological and Ecological Implications of a Modern Bone Assemblage from Olduvai Gorge

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Lions as Bone Accumulators? Paleontological and Ecological Implications of a Modern Bone Assemblage from Olduvai Gorge

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United States: Public Library of Science

Journal title

PloS one, 2016-05, Vol.11 (5), p.e0153797-e0153797

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English

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United States: Public Library of Science

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Contents

Analytic models have been developed to reconstruct early hominin behaviour, especially their subsistence patterns, revealed mainly through taphonomic analyses of archaeofaunal assemblages. Taphonomic research is used to discern which agents (carnivores, humans or both) generate the bone assemblages recovered at archaeological sites. Taphonomic fram...

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Lions as Bone Accumulators? Paleontological and Ecological Implications of a Modern Bone Assemblage from Olduvai Gorge

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TN_cdi_plos_journals_1786792954

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_plos_journals_1786792954

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ISSN

1932-6203

E-ISSN

1932-6203

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0153797

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