Palynological investigations of two burial mounds of the Middle Bronze Age of Tkemlara (southern Georgia)

Acta Palaeobotanica

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-279

  Kvavadze, Eliso ^a   Shatberashvili, Zebede ^a   Amiranashvili, Juansher ^a   Arabuli, George ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Georgia)

Author keywords

Bedenian culture; Burial mounds; Middle Bronze; Pollen spectra; Southern Georgia

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HISTORICAL TIME (HUMAN HISTORY); PALYNOLOGY;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALNUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETULACEAE; CASTANEA SATIVA; HEDERA; HEDERA HELIX; SMILAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZELKOVA CARPINIFOLIA;

EID: 33748041127     PISSN: 00016594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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