Book 2003
Archaeology of Drylands
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Climatic changes
- Deserts
- Arid regions agriculture
- Land settlement
- Social archaeology
- Human ecology
- Landscape archaeology
- History
Drylands cover 40 per cent of the land area of the Earth: their total area is about 60 million km, of which about ten million km are hyper-arid deserts (Fig. 1.1).