Processing of wild cereal grains in the Upper Palaeolithic revealed by starch grain analysis

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7000, 2004, Pages 670-673

  Piperno, Dolores R ^a,b   Weiss, Ehud ^c   Holst, Irene ^a   Nadel, Daniel ^d  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; SEED; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STARCH;

CULTURAL TRANSITIONS; DOMESTICATION;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

STARCH;

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BARLEY; FOOD PROCESSING; PALEOLITHIC; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BARLEY; CEREAL; DOMESTICATION; DOUGH; FLOUR; FOOD PROCESSING; GRAIN; GRASS; ISRAEL; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHEAT; ARCHEOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COOKING; CYTOLOGY; FOOD HANDLING; HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; TIME;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM MONOCOCCUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CEREALS; COOKERY; FOOD HANDLING; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HORDEUM; SEEDS; STARCH; TIME FACTORS; TRITICUM;

EID: 3943113003     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02734     Document Type: Article

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