The Late Neolithic colonization of the Eastern Badia of Jordan

Levant

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 285-301

  Rollefson, Gary ^a   Rowan, Yorke ^b   Wasse, Alexander ^c  

^a WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture; Caprines; Late neolithic; Palaeoclimate; Pastoralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907275143     PISSN: 00758914     EISSN: 17563801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/0075891414Z.00000000046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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