Bos primigenius Bojanus, 1827 from the Early Late Pleistocene Deposit of Avetrana (Southern Italy) and the Variation in Size of the Species in Southern Europe: Preliminary Report

Figure 7

Box plot for the greatest length of the female metacarpus of Bos primigenius from Avetrana and from different sites of southern Europe (data from 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33). MPL0: Middle Pleistocene, about 650–500 ka; MPL1: late Middle Pleistocene, about 480–300 ka; MPL2: latest Middle Pleistocene, about 300–200 ka; LPL1: early Late Pleistocene, about 125-0,80 ka; LPL2: late Late Pleistocene, about 75–20 ka.