"The wet and the wild followed by the dry and tame:- Or did they occur at the same time? Diet in Mesolithic - Neolithic southern Sweden

Antiquity

Volumn 78, Issue 299, 2004, Pages 23-33

  Lidén, Kerstin ^a   Eriksson, Gunilla ^a   Nordqvist, Bengt ^b   Götherström, Anders ^c   Bendixen, Erik ^d  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Central Board of National Antiquities   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DIET; DOMESTICATION; MESOLITHIC; NEOLITHIC;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 1942473891     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00092899     Document Type: Article

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