Ancient tortoise hunting in the southwest Pacific

We report the unprecedented Lapita exploitation and subsequent extinction of large megafauna tortoises (?Meiolania damelipi) on tropical islands during the late Holocene over a 281,000 km(2) region of the southwest Pacific spanning from the Vanuatu archipelago to Viti Levu in Fiji. Zooarchaeological...

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Autores principales: Hawkins, Stuart, Worthy, Trevor H., Bedford, Stuart, Spriggs, Matthew, Clark, Geoffrey, Irwin, Geoff, Best, Simon, Kirch, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5138842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27922064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep38317

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5138842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27922064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep38317

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