A global dynamic model for the Neolithic transition

Climatic Change

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 333-367

  Wirtz, Kai W ^a   Lemmen, Carsten ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; NATURAL RESOURCES; VEGETATION;

CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; FARMING SYSTEM; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HOLOCENE; HUNTER-GATHERER; NEOLITHIC; NUMERICAL MODEL; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EID: 0042360310     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024858532005     Document Type: Article

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