Twenty Thousand-Year-Old huts at a Hunter-Gatherer settlement in Eastern Jordan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Maher, Lisa A ^a   Richter, Tobias ^b   Macdonald, Danielle ^c   Jones, Matthew D ^d   Martin, Louise ^e   Stock, Jay T ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; HUMAN; HUNTER GATHERER SETTLEMENT; JORDAN; MESOLITHIC; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTORY; MIGRATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARCHITECTURE AS TOPIC; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; JORDAN; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84857072889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031447     Document Type: Article

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