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Megafaunal Exploitation

Megafaunal Exploitation is a subsistence strategy within the broader category of resource utilization practices, distinguished by the targeted hunting, processing, and consumption of large-bodied animal species for nutritional and material needs in prehistoric human societies.

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197

Authors

121

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2017–2026

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Publications

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The Primitive Hunter Culture, Pleistocene Extinction, and the Rise of Agriculture

Vernon L. Smith · Journal of Political Economy · 1975 · 236 citations

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Animal exploitation strategies during the South African Middle Stone Age: Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesons Poort fauna from Sibudu Cave

Jamie L. Clark, Ina Plug · Journal of Human Evolution · 2008 · 149 citations

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Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia

Giles Hamm, P.I. Mitchell, Lee J. Arnold et al. · Nature · 2016 · 148 citations

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The Mathematical Demography of the California Condor Population

David B. Mertz · The American Naturalist · 1971 · 113 citations

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Giant Tortoises as Ecological Engineers: A Long‐term Quasi‐experiment in the Galápagos Islands

James P. Gibbs, Eleanor J. Sterling · Biotropica · 2009 · 106 citations

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Authors

197

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    Erik Simon‐Lledó

    National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 56 citations

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  2. LP
    Luciano Prates

    Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  3. DJ
    David J. Meltzer

    Southern Methodist University, United States

    1 publications · 40 citations

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    Kerstin Glaus

    University of the South Pacific, Fiji

    1 publications · 24 citations

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  5. DJ
    Duncan Johnston

    The University of Queensland, Australia

    1 publications · 148 citations

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Institutions

121

  1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    4 h-index

    15 publications

    526 citations

  2. Universitat Rovira i Virgili

    Tarragona, Spain

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    52 citations

  3. National Oceanography Centre

    Southampton, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    196 citations

  4. Sorbonne Université

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    274 citations

  5. Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    Madrid, Spain

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    82 citations

  6. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    301 citations

  7. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    59 citations

  8. James Cook University

    Townsville, Australia

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    103 citations

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Venues

  1. Quaternary International

    4 publications · 121 citations

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  2. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports

    3 publications · 81 citations

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  3. Journal of Human Evolution

    JHE · 2 publications · 223 citations

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  4. Scientific Reports

    2 publications · 34 citations

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  5. Frontiers in Marine Science

    2 publications · 52 citations

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