Life at the end of the Holocene moist phase in south-east Arabia - the Late Neolithic site of Jebel Thanais 1 (JTH1)

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 81-95

  Drechsler, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intra site spatial analysis; Neolithic; Neolithic settlement pattern; South east Arabia; Stone artefact technology

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; HOLOCENE; NEOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STONE AGE; SUBSISTENCE;

ARABIAN PENINSULA; SHARJAH [UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 77958524473     PISSN: 09057196     EISSN: 16000471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0471.2010.00328.x     Document Type: Article

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