Pontic-Caspian mesolithic and early neolithic societies at the time of the Black Sea flood: A small audience and small effects

The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 345-370

  Anthony, David W ^a  

^a HARTWICK COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

ceramics; equid hunting; forager mortuary practices; forager populations; Mesolithic; microliths; Neolithic; sea level change; subsistence change

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249941998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_14     Document Type: Chapter

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