Levantine overkill: 1.5 million years of hunting down the body size distribution

2021/12/15 by Jacob Dembitzer, Ran Barkai, Miki Ben-Dor +2 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

paper · doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107316

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