Soils and soil sediments at Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey: A preliminary report

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 699-719

  Pustovoytov, Konstantin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATENA; CHRONOLOGY; NEOLITHIC; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEDOGENESIS; PEDOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL HORIZON;

TURKEY;

EID: 33749444309     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20134     Document Type: Article

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