Environment and settlements in the Mid-Holocene palaeo-oasis of Wadi Tanezzuft (Libyan Sahara)

Antiquity

Volumn 75, Issue 290, 2001, Pages 815-825

  Cremaschi, Mauro ^a   Di Lernia, Savino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geoarchaeology; Holocene; Libyan Sahara; Palaeo oasis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; WADI TANEZZUFT;

EID: 0035663682     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00089390     Document Type: Article

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