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Actualistic Zooarchaeology in Central Western Argentina in Cave and Open Air Contexts

Ethnobiology Letters, 2014
Many cultural and natural processes form the archaeological record. Taphonomy, the study of the transition of organic matter from living contexts (the biosphere) to geological contexts (the lithosphere), aids in understanding how agents and processes ...
Clara Otaola
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CANNOT READ--DAMAGE

The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO ...
CANNOT READ--DAMAGE
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Impact of wild prey availability on livestock predation by snow leopards [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2017
An increasing proportion of the world's poor is rearing livestock today, and the global livestock population is growing. Livestock predation by large carnivores and their retaliatory killing is becoming an economic and conservation concern.
Kulbhushansingh R. Suryawanshi, Stephen M. Redpath, Yash Veer Bhatnagar, Uma Ramakrishnan, Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Sophie C. Smout, Charudutt Mishra   +6 more
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Herders’ ecological knowledge and carnivore predation on livestock investigations in Makgadikgadi and Nxai national parks, Botswana

Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2017
Botswana is one of the countries in Southern Africa that pay compensation for human properties damaged by wildlife. Before compensation is paid, a thorough investigation on determining wildlife species that have caused the damage is mandatory. Because of
Lucas P. Rutina, Kefentse M. Mogwera, Elford Seonyatseng, Charles Mpofu, Ditso Ntloyathuto   +4 more
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‘Neanderthal bone flutes’: simply products of Ice Age spotted hyena scavenging activities on cave bear cubs in European cave bear dens [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2015
Punctured extinct cave bear femora were misidentified in southeastern Europe (Hungary/Slovenia) as ‘Palaeolithic bone flutes’ and the ‘oldest Neanderthal instruments’.
Cajus G. Diedrich
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Coastal and Inland subsistence strategies during the Gravettian in the Cantabrian Region (northern Iberian Peninsula)

Quaternary Science Advances, 2023
The Gravettian site of Fuente del Salín Cave is located in the northern Iberian Peninsula (Cantabrian Region, Spain). In 2016, excavations conducted at the site yielded numerous faunal remains, including mammals and fish.
Angel Blanco-Lapaz, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, Fernando González-Echegaray de Yarto, Manuel R. González-Morales   +4 more
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Cost of Coexisting with a Relict Large Carnivore Population: Impact of Apennine Brown Bears, 2005–2015

Animals, 2021
Human-carnivore conflicts are a major conservation issue. As bears are expanding their range in Europe’s human-modified landscapes, it is increasingly important to understand, prevent, and address human-bear conflicts and evaluate mitigation strategies ...
Andrea Galluzzi, Valerio Donfrancesco, Gianluca Mastrantonio, Cinzia Sulli, Paolo Ciucci   +4 more
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Morphological characteristics of preparator air-scribe marks: Implications for taphonomic research.

PLoS ONE, 2018
Taphonomic analyses of bone-surface modifications can provide key insights into past biotic involvement with animal remains, as well as elucidate the context(s) of other biostratinomic (pre-burial) processes, diagenesis, excavation, preparation and ...
Logan A Wiest, Joseph V Ferraro, Katie M Binetti, Steven L Forman, Donald A Esker, Mzalendo Kibunjia, Jean-Philip Brugal, Bernd Zechmann   +7 more
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Living high and at risk: predicting Andean bear occurrence and conflicts with humans in southeastern Peru

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Human encroachment into wildlife habitat threatens the persistence of large carnivore populations because it shrinks their distribution and promotes conflicts related to agricultural and livestock damage.
Roxana Rojas-VeraPinto, Carlos Bautista, Nuria Selva   +2 more
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The effectiveness of livestock protection measures against wolves (Canis lupus) and implications for their co-existence with humans

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Wolves (Canis lupus) can kill domestic livestock resulting in intense conflicts with humans. Damage to livestock should be reduced to facilitate human-wolf coexistence and ensure positive outcomes of conservation efforts.
Antonia Bruns, Matthias Waltert, Igor Khorozyan   +2 more
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