Don't abhor your neighbor for he is a pastoralist: The GIS-based modeling of the past human-environment interactions and landscape changes in the Wadi el-Hasa, west-central Jordan

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2908-2920

  Arikan, Bülent ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic impacts; Extensive agropastoralism; GRASS; Landscape modeling

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY; GIS; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PASTORALISM; SPATIAL DATA;

JORDAN;

EID: 84862135117     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.04.051     Document Type: Article

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