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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...
Autores principales: | Hawkins, Stuart, Worthy, Trevor H., Bedford, Stuart, Spriggs, Matthew, Clark, Geoffrey, Irwin, Geoff, Best, Simon, Kirch, Patrick |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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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