Nile behaviour and Late Palaeolithic humans in Upper Egypt during the Late Pleistocene

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 130, Issue , 2015, Pages 155-167

  Vermeersch, Pierre M ^a   Van Neer, Wim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Egypt; Endorheic environment; Geomorphology; Late glacial maximum (LGM); Late palaeolithic; Late pleistocene; River Nile

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

EGYPT; ENDORHEIC ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL MAXIMA; LATE PALAEOLITHIC; LATE PLEISTOCENE;

LANDFORMS;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; FISHING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION DENSITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SKELETAL REMAINS;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NILE RIVER; NILE VALLEY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84949318702     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.03.025     Document Type: Article

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