Climate fluctuations and trajectories to complexity in the Neolithic: Towards a theory

Documenta Praehistorica

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 97-110

  Gronenborn, Detlef ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate fluctuations; Crises; Neolithization; Socio political trajectories

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051792824     PISSN: 1408967X     EISSN: 18542492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4312/dp.36.5     Document Type: Article

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