The younger dryas and hunter-gatherer transitions to food production in the near east

Hunter-Gatherer Behavior: Human Response During the Younger Dryas

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 195-230

  Makarewicz, Cheryl A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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