Agricultural sustainability in the semi-arid Near East
Agriculture began in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor about 11000 years ago toward the end of the Younger Dryas when aridity had diminished wild food resources. During the subsequent Climatic Optimum, agricultural villages spread rapidly but subsequent climatic changes on centennial to m...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2007-05-01
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Series: | Climate of the Past |
Online Access: | http://www.clim-past.net/3/193/2007/cp-3-193-2007.pdf |