Advances in plant food processing in the Near Eastern Epipalaeolithic and implications for improved edibility and nutrient bioaccessibility: An experimental assessment of bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla (sea club-rush)

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Wollstonecroft, Michèle M ^a   Ellis, Peter R ^b   Hillman, Gordon C ^a   Fuller, Dorian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Epipalaeolithic; Food processing; Hunter gatherer; Late Pleistocene; Near East

Indexed keywords

BOLBOSCHOENUS MARITIMUS; PALLA; TUBER (TRUFFLE);

EID: 57049150703     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-008-0162-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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