High Resolution AMS Dates from Shubayqa 1, northeast Jordan Reveal Complex Origins of Late Epipalaeolithic Natufian in the Levant

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Richter, Tobias ^a   Arranz Otaegui, Amaia ^a   Yeomans, Lisa ^a   Boaretto, Elisabetta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b D REAMS Radiocarbon Laboratory   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DOMESTICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTORY; HUMAN; JORDAN; LUNATE BONE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; DOMESTICATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; JORDAN; LUNATE BONE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85037072387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17096-5     Document Type: Article

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