Four thousand years of plant exploitation in the Lake Chad Basin (Nigeria), part III: Plant impressions in potsherds from the Final Stone Age Gajiganna Culture

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-142

  Klee, Marlies ^a   Zach, Barbara ^b   Stika, Hans Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Labor Archaobotanik Zach Bernbeuren   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; Domesticated Pennisetum; Early agriculture; Imprints in ceramics; Pearl millet; West Africa; Wild plant exploitation

Indexed keywords

ORYZA; ORYZA BARTHII; ORYZA LONGISTAMINATA; PANICEAE; PENNISETUM; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; ZIZANIA;

EID: 3242714870     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-004-0037-8     Document Type: Article

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