Early Holocene in the Highlands: Data on the Peopling of the Eastern Yemen Plateau, with a Note on the Pleistocene Evidence

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9789048127184, 2010, Pages 215-236

  Fedele, Francesco G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early Holocene; Pre Neolithic; Yemen Plateau

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045969214     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2719-1_16     Document Type: Chapter

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