New evidence of lateglacial cereal cultivation at Abu Hureyra on the euphrates

Holocene

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 383-393

  Hillman, Gordon ^a   Hedges, Robert ^b   Moore, Andrew ^c   Colledge, Susan ^a   Pettitt, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abu Hureyra; Agricultural origins; Cereal cultivation; Domestication; Early Holocene; Euphrates; Hunter gatherers; Lateglaical; Palaeoclimate; Rye; Southwestern Asia

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CEREAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; HOLOCENE; LATE GLACIAL;

EID: 0034952307     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/095968301678302823     Document Type: Article

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