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Mapping the Elephants of the 19th Century East African Ivory Trade with a Multi-Isotope Approach

East African elephants have been hunted for their ivory for millennia but the nineteenth century witnessed strongly escalating demand from Europe and North America. It has been suggested that one consequence was that by the 1880s elephant herds along the coast had become scarce, and to meet demand,...

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Autores principales: Coutu, Ashley N., Lee-Thorp, Julia, Collins, Matthew J., Lane, Paul J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5070863/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27760152
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163606