Beyond the Levant: First Evidence of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic Incursion into the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Crassard, Rémy ^a   Petraglia, Michael D ^b,c   Parker, Adrian G ^d   Parton, Ash ^b   Roberts, Richard G ^e   Jacobs, Zenobia ^e   Alsharekh, Abdullah ^f,g   Al Omari, Abdulaziz ^h   Breeze, Paul ⁱ   Drake, Nick A ⁱ   Groucutt, Huw S ^b   Jennings, Richard ^b   Régagnon, Emmanuelle ^a   Shipton, Ceri ^j  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^f KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^g Ministry of Education Saudi Arabia   (Saudi Arabia)

^h The Saudi General Commission for Tourism and Antiquities   (Saudi Arabia)

ⁱ KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CERAMICS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DESERT; EARLY HOLOCENE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; MEDITERRANEAN LEVANT; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRATION; NEOLITHIC; PRE POTTERY NEOLITHIC; SAUDI ARABIA; STONE AGE; STONE TOOL; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CIVILIZATION; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84880425661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068061     Document Type: Article

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