Farming, herding, and the transformation of human landscapes in Southwestern Asia

Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 315-327

  Bar Yosef, Ofer ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315427737-45     Document Type: Chapter

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