The camel remains from site HD-6 (Ra's al-Hadd, Sultanate of Oman): An opportunity for a critical review of dromedary findings in eastern Arabia

Anthropozoologica

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 207-224

  Curci, Antonio ^a   Carletti, Michela ^b   Tosi, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Independent Researcher   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bronze age; Camel; Domestication; Sultanate of Oman

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920378187     PISSN: 07613032     EISSN: 21070881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5252/az2014n2a04     Document Type: Article

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