The Nile valley and the Eastern Sahara: a prehistoric population expanding and retracting according to the changing climate;La vallée du Nil et le Sahara oriental : une population préhistorique fluctuante sous l'effet des variations climatiques

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 255-262

  Vermeersch, Pierre M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Climate; Egypt; Nile; Palaeolithic; Pleistocene; Prehistory; Sahara

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HISTORY; LANDFORMS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREHISTORIC;

AFRICA; NILE VALLEY; SAHARA;

EID: 54249098379     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2005.09.008     Document Type: Article

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