Experimental butchering of a chimpanzee carcass for archaeological purposes.

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Published in PLoS One on March 20, 2015

Authors

Palmira Saladié1, Isabel Cáceres2, Rosa Huguet3, Antonio Rodríguez-Hidalgo4, Borís Santander5, Andreu Ollé2, M Joana Gabucio2, Patricia Martín2, Juan Marín4

Author Affiliations

1: IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain; Área de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain; GQP-CG, Grupo Quaternário e Pré-História do Centro de Geociências (uI and D 73-FCT), Tomar, Portugal; Unit associated to Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Ciéntíficas (CSIC), Departamento de Paleobiologia, Museo de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN), Madrid, Spain.
2: IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain; Área de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.
3: IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain; Área de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain; Unit associated to Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Ciéntíficas (CSIC), Departamento de Paleobiologia, Museo de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN), Madrid, Spain.
4: IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain; Área de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain; Equipo Primeros Pobladores de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain.
5: IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain; Área de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain; GQP-CG, Grupo Quaternário e Pré-História do Centro de Geociências (uI and D 73-FCT), Tomar, Portugal.

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