Neolithization processes in the Levant: The outer envelope

Current Anthropology

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2011, Pages

  Nigel Goring Morris, A ^a   Belfer Cohen, Anna ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.1086/658860     Document Type: Article

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