A tale of two cities in ancient Canaan: How the groundwater storage capacity of Arad and Jericho decided their history

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 288, Issue , 2008, Pages 137-143

  Issar, A S ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; GROUNDWATER; PREHISTORIC; RECHARGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; PALESTINE;

EID: 41949111392     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP288.11     Document Type: Article

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