The environmental context of Paleolithic settlement at Jebel Faya, Emirate Sharjah, UAE

Quaternary International

Volumn 300, Issue , 2013, Pages 83-93

  Bretzke, Knut ^a,b   Armitage, Simon J ^c   Parker, Adrian G ^d   Walkington, Helen ^d   Uerpmann, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DESICCATION; DISPERSAL; GRASSLAND; HOLOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOLITHIC; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYTOLITH; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; VEGETATION COVER;

SHARJAH [UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

CAREX; POACEAE;

EID: 84878991659     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.01.028     Document Type: Article

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