Human occupation of sand seas during the early and mid-Holocene examples from Egypt

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 138, Issue , 2005, Pages 153-165

  Bubenzer, Olaf ^a,b   Besler, Helga ^a,b  

^a Geographisches Institut ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESERT; DUNE FIELD; HOLOCENE;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 33645508927     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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