Revised taphonomic perspective on African Plio-Pleistocene fauna

Nicholas Toth^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Cognitive Science Program and Anthropology Department, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405; toth@indiana.edu.
² The Stone Age Institute, Gosport, IN 47433.

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Nicholas Toth. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017.

. 2017 Dec 12;114(50):13066-13067.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1718815114. Epub 2017 Nov 29.

Nicholas Toth^{1

2}

¹ Cognitive Science Program and Anthropology Department, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405; toth@indiana.edu.
² The Stone Age Institute, Gosport, IN 47433.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declares no conflict of interest.

Hominid butchers and biting crocodiles in the African Plio-Pleistocene.
Sahle Y, El Zaatari S, White TD. Sahle Y, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Dec 12;114(50):13164-13169. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1716317114. Epub 2017 Nov 6. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017. PMID: 29109249 Free PMC article.

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