Mid-Holocene occupation of Egypt and global climatic change

Quaternary International

Volumn 251, Issue , 2012, Pages 64-76

  Phillipps, Rebecca ^a   Holdaway, Simon ^a   Wendrich, Willeke ^b   Cappers, René ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; CLIMATE VARIATION; CULTIVATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PALEOCLIMATE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

EGYPT; FAIYUM [EGYPT]; LAKE QAROUN;

EID: 84856338321     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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