Articles | Volume 68, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-68-215-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/egqsj-68-215-2020
Research article
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09 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 09 Jan 2020

Sediment-filled karst depressions and riyad – key archaeological environments of south Qatar

Max Engel, Stefanie Rückmann, Philipp Drechsler, Dominik Brill, Stephan Opitz, Jörg W. Fassbinder, Anna Pint, Kim Peis, Dennis Wolf, Christoph Gerber, Kristina Pfeiffer, Ricardo Eichmann, and Helmut Brückner

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