Extracting wealth from a land of starvation by creating social complexity: A dialogue between archaeology and climate?

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 341, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 726-738

  Cleuziou, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Arabia; Bronze Age; Climate; Holocene; Modeling; Oman; Society

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD PRODUCTION; HOLOCENE; LAND USE; PALEOCLIMATE;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

EID: 70350078190     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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