Early to Middle Holocene human adaptations on the Buri Peninsula and Gulf of Zula, coastal lowlands of Eritrea

Azania

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 123-140

  Beyin, Amanuel ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

early middle Holocene; Eritrea; Later Stone Age; Red Sea coast

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959700510     PISSN: 0067270X     EISSN: 19455534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2011.580139     Document Type: Article

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