Mapping patterns of long-term settlement in Northern Mesopotamia at a large scale

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Menze, Bjoern H ^a,b   Ur, Jason A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; MESOPOTAMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

ARCHAEOLOGY; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 84859478270     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115472109     Document Type: Article

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