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Third millennium oasis towns and environmental constraints on settlement in the Al-Hajar region: Part II: Environmental Factors Affecting Early Settlement South of the Jabal Al-Akhḍar, Oman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2014

Gordon Stanger
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Abstract

Environmental factors within the southward draining basins of the Jabal al-Akhḍar, in the Oman mountains, are described and considered in terms of the constraints which they impose upon early agricultural settlement. There is some conflict between the palaeoclimatic deductions from the South Akhḍar sedimentary record, and the generally accepted regional view of late Holocene climatic deterioration.

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IRAQ , Volume 56 , 1994 , pp. 89 - 100
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Copyright © The British Institute for the Study of Iraq 1994 

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