Cultural and human dynamics in southern Arabia at the end of the Middle Paleolithic

Quaternary International

Volumn 300, Issue , 2013, Pages 234-243

  Delagnes, Anne ^a,b   Crassard, Rémy ^c   Bertran, Pascal ^a,d   Sitzia, Luca ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c University Lumière Lyon 2   (France)

^d INRAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARID ENVIRONMENT; CULTURAL CHANGE; CULTURAL TRADITION; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MESOLITHIC; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE;

ARABIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84878967387     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2012.12.012     Document Type: Article

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