Zebu: Harbingers of doom in Bronze Age western Asia?

Antiquity

Volumn 76, Issue 292, 2002, Pages 438-446

  Matthews, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; Cattle; Climate change; Western Asia; Zebu

Indexed keywords

ARIDIFICATION; BRONZE AGE; CATTLE; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY;

ASIA;

EID: 0036075907     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00090542     Document Type: Article

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