Publisher： Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN： 1745-1744|65|249|857-869
ISSN： 0003-598x
Source： Antiquity, Vol.65, Iss.249, 1991-12, pp. : 857-869
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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 (
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