Wadi Bakht revisited: Holocene climate change and prehistoric occupation in the Gilf Kebir Region of the eastern Sahara, SW Egypt

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 753-778

  Linstädter, Jörg ^a   Kröpelin, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LAND USE CHANGE; OCCUPATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREHISTORIC;

EGYPT; GILF KEBIR; NEW VALLEY; SAHARA;

EID: 10444220958     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20023     Document Type: Article

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