780,000-Year-old wood from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel

Israel Journal of Plant Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 291-300

  Werker, Ella ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Flora; Palaeo Lake Hula; Pleistocene; Wood

Indexed keywords

CLIMBING PLANT; EXTINCTION; HOLOCENE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; SHRUB; TREE; WOOD;

ASIA; DEAD SEA RIFT; EURASIA; GESHER BENOT YA'AQOV; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NORTHERN DISTRICT;

FRAXINUS; PISTACIA; PISTACIA VERA; QUERCUS; SALIX; ULMUS;

EID: 35548997842     PISSN: 07929978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/IJPS_54_4_291     Document Type: Article

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