Cultural responses to aridity in the Middle Holocene and increased social complexity

Quaternary International - Tập 151 Số 1 - Trang 29-49 - 2006
Nick Brooks1
1Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Saharan Studies Programme and School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK

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