The first intermediate period: A time of famine and climate change?

Agypten und Levante

Volumn 15, Issue , 2006, Pages 153-167

  Moeller, Nadine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84864100537     PISSN: 10155104     EISSN: 18135145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1553/AEundL15s153     Document Type: Review

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