Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: Radiocarbon chronology, cultural change, and the 8.2 ka event

Radiocarbon

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 229-243

  van Der Plicht, J ^a,b   Akkermans, P M M G ^b   Nieuwenhuyse, O ^b   Kaneda, A ^b   Russell, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CHRONOLOGY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CULTURAL CHANGE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; NEOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING;

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

EID: 79958140370     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200056514     Document Type: Article

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