Humans, island colonization and Pleistocene extinctions in the Mediterranean: the view from AkrotiriAetokremnos, Cyprus
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Antiquity
- Vol. 65 (249) , 857-869
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00080571
Abstract
The rôle played by humans in the extinction of late Pleistocene vertebrate fauna is a controversial topic (Diamond 1989; Grayson 1989; Martin & Klein 1984), and actual archaeological data for a human factor are quite rare. Recent multidisciplinary excavations in Cyprus, however, suggest that people were at least partially responsible for the extinction of local endemics, primarily pygmy hippopotamus (Phanourios minutus).Keywords
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