Archaeobotanical evidence for the spread of farming in the eastern Mediterranean

Current Anthropology

Volumn 45, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2004, Pages

  Colledge, Sue ^a   Conolly, James ^a   Sherman, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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