Agro-pastoralist colonization of Cyprus in the 10th millennium BP: Initial assessments

Antiquity

Volumn 74, Issue 286, 2000, Pages 844-853

  Peltenburg, Edgar ^a   Colledge, Sue ^b   Croft, Paul ^c   Jackson, Adam ^a   McCartney, Carole ^d   Murray, Mary Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Lemba Archaeological Research Centre   (Cyprus)

^d NONE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Burial; Colonization; Cyprus; Domestication; Pre pottery neolithic; Wells

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038469113     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0006049X     Document Type: Article

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