Storage of crops during the fourth and third millennia b.c. at the settlement mound of tell brak, northeast Syria

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Hald, Mette Marie ^a   Charles, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; Crop storage; Early Bronze Age; Late Chalcolithic; Northern Mesopotamia; Tell Brak

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM; LINUM USITATISSIMUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 57049175072     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-008-0154-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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