Late chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age landscapes of settlement and mobility in the Middle Euphrates: A reassessment

Levant

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 139-185

  Wilkinson, Tony J ^a   Galiatsatos, Nikolaos ^a   Lawrence, Dan ^a   Ricci, Andrea ^b,c   Dunford, Rob ^d   Philip, Graham ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agro pastoral; Bronze Age; Cities; Landscape; Settlement; Wool

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870807201     PISSN: 00758914     EISSN: 17563801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/0075891412Z.0000000007     Document Type: Review

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