The great auk and the gannet: a prehistoric perspective on the extinction of the great auk
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Summary
Comparison between the great auk and northern gannet suggests that the method of exploitation as well as the biology and behaviour of each contributed to the extinction of the former and the survival of the latter.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2001-01-01
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 16
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Keywords
Prehistory, Extinction (optical mineralogy), Geography, Archaeology, Distribution (mathematics)
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- Big fish and great auks: Exploitation of birds and fish on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, during the Romano-British period
- Common pools and private tools? Mobility and economy during Ireland’s Later Mesolithic
- Late Pleistocene marine birds from southern Peru: distinguishing human capture from El Niño-induced windfall
- The great auk (Pinguinus impennis) in the Netherlands during the Roman period
- Stone Age exploitation of birds on the island of Gotland, Baltic Sea: a taphonomic study of the avifauna on the Neolithic site of Ajvide
- Property, Identity, and Macroeconomy in the Prehispanic Southwest
- Late Holocene range collapse in a former British seabird species
- Association for Environmental Archaeology Newsletter 71 (February 2001)
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