The potential of bird remains for environmental reconstruction
โ Scribed by Anne Eastham
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 247 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1047-482X
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โฆ Synopsis
Until relatively recently, studies of bird remains have been regarded as peripheral to mainstream research on early archaeological and palaeontological sites, rather than a potentially crucial factor in the reconstruction of the past environments in which hominids and other larger mammals were present This paper sets out to deยฎne the range of ecological information for a site which can be gained through study of the bird bones, using as an example the bones recovered in the excavations at Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar. # 1997 by
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