| direct dating and physico-chemical analyses cast doubts on the coexistence of humans and dwarf hippos in cyprus. | in the mediterranean, the island dwarf megafaunas became extinct around the end of the pleistocene, during a period of rapid and global climate change. in cyprus, this coincided with the first human presence on the island, as attested by the rock shelter of akrotiri-aetokremnos where an epipaleolithic anthropogenic layer (stratum 2) was found overlying a massive accumulation of pygmy hippopotamus (phanourios minor (desmarest, 1822)) [boekschoten and sondaar, 1972] bones (stratum 4). the relation ... | 2015 | 26284623 |