Settlement fluctuations and environmental changes in Israel's coastal plain during the Early Bronze Age

Levant

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 19-39

  Faust, Avraham ^a   Ashkenazy, Yosef ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coastal plain; Early Bronze Age; Environmental change; Israel; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549110063     PISSN: 00758914     EISSN: 17563801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/175638009x448230     Document Type: Article

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