Urartian plant cultivation at Yoncatepe (Van), eastern Turkey

Economic Botany

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 290-298

  Dönmez, Emel Oybak ^a   Belli, Oktay ^b  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Anatolia; Archaeobotany; Iron age; Palaeoethnobotany; Storage; Urartu; Yoncatepe

Indexed keywords

CAMELINA SATIVA; CICER ARIETINUM; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; LENS CULINARIS; SECALE CEREALE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM DICOCCON; VICIA; VICIA ERVILIA; VITACEAE;

EID: 35148862069     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0013-0001(2007)61[290:UPCAYV]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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