Foraging, farming, and social complexity in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the southern Levant: A review and synthesis

Journal of World Prehistory

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 361-440

  Kuijt, Ian ^a   Goring Morris, Nigel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Early agriculture; Neolithic; Social organization; Southern Levant

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; FOOD PRODUCTION; NEOLITHIC;

MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0038702070     PISSN: 08927537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022973114090     Document Type: Article

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