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Part II: - Palaeoclimates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

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Yehouda Enzel  and
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Yehouda Enzel
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ofer Bar-Yosef
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Harvard University, Massachusetts
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Quaternary of the Levant
Environments, Climate Change, and Humans
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