A fearsome predator-scavenger in Hungary: The role of the cave hyena in the accumulation of the fossil animal remains according to the taphonomic and archaeozoological study of the Middle Palaeolithic site of Érd (Transdanubia, Carpathian Basin)
A fearsome predator-scavenger in Hungary: The role of the cave hyena in the accumulation of the fossil animal remains according to the taphonomic and archaeozoological study of the Middle Palaeolithic site of Érd (Transdanubia, Carpathian Basin)
Author(s): Éva J. DaschekSubject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: cave hyena; Middle Palaeolithic; Neanderthals; Hungary; archaeozoology;
Summary/Abstract: This research is helping to understand the role of the hyena in the origin and accumulation history of the site of Érd's bone assemblage, in which the role of Neanderthals is also clearly highlighted. It attempts to provide an insight into the destructive potential of this carnivore at Érd and in the corpus of Hungarian sites.
Journal: Archaeologiai Értesítő
- Issue Year: 148/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 69-92
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English
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