Fossil hunting in the neolithic: Shells from the Taurus Mountains at Çatalhöyük, Turkey

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 375-392

  Bar Yosef Mayer, Daniella E ^a   Gümüş, Burçin Aşkim ^b   Islamoǧlu, Yeşim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF MINERAL RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; DATING METHOD; FOSSIL RECORD; GASTROPOD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NEOLITHIC; PLIOCENE; SHELL; TETHYS;

HATAY; KARAMAN; MUT BASIN; TAURIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 77951905956     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.20311     Document Type: Article

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