Detecting seasonal movement from animal dung: An investigation in Neolithic northern Greece

Antiquity

Volumn 81, Issue 314, 2007, Pages 1053-1064

  Valamoti, Soultana Maria ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

'Flat' settlements; Agriculture; Archaeobotany; Dung; Greece; Neolithic; Tells; Transhumance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; DETECTION METHOD; GRAZING; MANURE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOBOTANY; PLANT; SEASONALITY; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 37449015814     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00096113     Document Type: Article

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