Div Erse Strategies: Ev Aluating the Appearance and Spread of Domestic Caprines in The Southern Levant

The Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 49-82

  Martin, Louise ^a   Edwards, Yvonne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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