Climate-Controlled Holocene Occupation in the Sahara: Motor of Africa's Evolution

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2006-08-11

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.1130989PMID 16857900
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