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See Farouk El-Baz, “Boston University Scientist Discovers Ancient River System in Saudi Arabia,” in Boston University News, March 25, 1993, pp. 1–2; and “Gulf War Disruption of the Desert Surface in Kuwait,” in Gulf War and the Environment (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1994).

Karl W. Butzer, Glynn L. Isaac, Jonathan L. Richardson and Celia Washbourn-Kamau, “Radiocarbon Dating of East African Lake Levels,” in Science 175 (1972), pp. 1069–1076.

F. Sirocko, M. Sarnthein, H. Erlenkeuser, H. Lange, M. Arnold and J.C. Duplessy, “Century-Scale Events in Monsoonal Climate over the Past 24,000 Years,” in Nature 364 (1993), pp. 322–364.

See Sauer and J.A. Blakely, “Archaeology Along the Spice Route of Yemen,” in Araby the Blest, ed. Daniel T. Potts, (Copenhagen: Carsten Niebuhr Institute, 1988), pp. 90–115.

See Horowitz, “Human Settlement Patterns,” figure 1.

For details, see James A. Sauer, “A New Climatic and Archaeological View of the Early Biblical Traditions,” in Scripture and Other Artifacts, eds. Michael D. Coogan et al. (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox, 1994).

Paul Goldberg and Arlene M. Rosen, “Early Holocene Palaeoenvironments of Israel,” in Shiqmim 1: Studies Concerning Chalcolithic Societies in the Northern Negev Desert, Israel (1982–1984), British Archaeological Reports International Series 356 (i–ii) (1987), ed. Thomas E. Levy, pp. 23–33.

Thomas E. Levy “The Chalcolithic Period,” in Biblical Archaeologist 49 (1986), pp. 82–108.

Aharon Horowitz, “Climatic and Vegetational Developments in Northeastern Israel During Upper Pleistocene-Holocene Times,” in Pollen et Spores 13 (1971), pp. 255–278; “Preliminary Palynological Indications as to the Climate of Israel During the Last 6,000 Years,” in Paleorient 2 (1974), pp. 407–414; “Human Settlement Patterns in Israel,” in Expedition 20:4 (1978), pp. 55–58; and The Quaternary of Israel (New York: Academic Press, 1979).

Amihai Mazar, Archaeology of the Land of the Bible, 10,000–586 B.C.E. (New York: Doubleday, 1990).