Charming lives: Human and animal figurines in the late epipaleolithic and early neolithic periods in the greater levant and eastern anatolia

The Neolithic Demographic Transition and its Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 387-416

  Rollefson, Gary O ^a  

^a WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatolia; Figurines; Levant; Natufian; PPNA; PPNB; Symbols

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892107920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8539-0_15     Document Type: Chapter

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