The history of the camel bone dating project

Anthropozoologica

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 225-235

  Grigson, Caroline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabia; Camel; Camelus dromedarius; Collagen; Domestication; Middle east; Radiocarbon accelerator (AMS) dating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920498050     PISSN: 07613032     EISSN: 21070881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5252/az2014n2a05     Document Type: Article

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