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Sediment-filled karst depressions and riyad – key archaeological environments of south Qatar
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany
Geological Survey of Belgium, OD Earth and History of Life, Royal
Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Stefanie Rückmann
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany
Philipp Drechsler
Section for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of
Tübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
Dominik Brill
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany
Stephan Opitz
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany
Jörg W. Fassbinder
Geophysics Section, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, 80333 Munich, Germany
Archaeological Prospection Section, Bavarian State Department for
Monuments and Sites, 80539 Munich, Germany
Anna Pint
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany
Kim Peis
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany
Dennis Wolf
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany
Christoph Gerber
Institute of Prehistory, Protohistory and Near-Eastern Archaeology,
University of Heidelberg, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
Kristina Pfeiffer
Orient Department, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), 14195
Berlin, Germany
Ricardo Eichmann
Orient Department, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), 14195
Berlin, Germany
Helmut Brückner
Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, 50674 Cologne, Germany
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Hans von Suchodoletz, Stefanie Berg, Eileen Eckmeier, Lukas Werther, and Christoph Zielhofer
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Christian Tinapp, Susann Heinrich, Christoph Herbig, Birgit Schneider, Harald Stäuble, Jan Miera, and Hans von Suchodoletz
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