Charcoal analysis and the reconstruction of ancient woodland vegetation in the Konya Basin, south-central Anatolia, Turkey: Results from the neolithic site of Çatalhöyük East

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-32

  Asouti, Eleni ^a   Hather, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anatolia; Archaeobotany; Charcoal analysis; Neolithic; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035532480     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013369     Document Type: Article

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