Articles
The mongoose of the Cave of Nerja, southern Spain, is not the oldest Egyptian mongoose of Europe
Published
October 1, 2009
Keywords:
MONGOOSE, Herpestes ichneumon, SARDINIA, PUNIC
How to Cite
Masseti, M. (2009). The mongoose of the Cave of Nerja, southern Spain, is not the oldest Egyptian mongoose of Europe. Archaeofauna, (18), 65–68. Retrieved from https://revistas.uam.es/archaeofauna/article/view/6593
Abstract
This note comments on a find of the european mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon
L., 1758) from a cistern of punic age on the island of Sant’Antioco (Sardinia, Italy) that antedates
a recently radiocarbon dated find ofAlmoravid-Almohad age at the site of Cueva de Nerja
(Málaga, Spain) by close to two millennia.
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