Decision Making at the Margins: Settlement Trends, Temporal Scale, and Ecology in the Wadi al Hasa, West-Central Jordan

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 221-241

  Hill, J Brett ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0042726122     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jaar.1999.0353     Document Type: Article

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