Juniper smoke, skulls and wolves' tails. The Epipalaeolithic of the Anatolian plateau in its South-west Asian context; insights from Pinarbaşi

Levant

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 175-209

  Baird, Douglas ^a   Asouti, Eleni ^a   Astruc, Laurence ^b   Baysal, Adnan ^c   Baysal, Emma ^d   Carruthers, Denise ^a   Fairbairn, Andrew ^e   Kabukcu, Ceren ^a   Jenkins, Emma ^f   Lorentz, Kirsi ^g   Middleton, Caroline ^a   Pearson, Jessica ^a   Pirie, Anne ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d British Institute   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^h UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatolia; Broad Spectrum; Epipalaeolithic; Late Glacial climate change; Ritual; Sedentism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889584009     PISSN: 00758914     EISSN: 17563801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/0075891413Z.00000000024     Document Type: Article

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