Building monuments, creating identity: Cattle cult as a social response to rapid environmental changes in the Holocene Sahara

Quaternary International

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-62

  di Lernia, Savino ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HOLOCENE; SOCIAL HISTORY;

AFRICA; SAHARA;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 33747196907     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2006.01.014     Document Type: Article

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