Palaeoecology

Part IV: - Palaeoecology

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 May 2017

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Yehouda Enzel and

Ofer Bar-Yosef

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Yehouda Enzel: Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ofer Bar-Yosef: Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts

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Information: Quaternary of the Levant
Environments, Climate Change, and Humans
, pp. 329 - 390

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