The Natufian culture in the levant, threshold to the origins of agriculture

Evolutionary Anthropology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 159-177

  Bar Yosef, Ofer ^a  

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Author keywords

Early neolithic; Levant; Natufian; Origins of agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032221063     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(1998)6:5<159::AID-EVAN4>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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