Hesitant hunters: A review of the introduction of agriculture in western Norway

Environmental Archaeology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 147-170

  Hjelle, Kari Loe ^a   Hufthammer, Anne Karin ^a   Bergsvik, Knut Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Animal husbandry; Archaeology; Cultivation; Early bronze age; Neolithic; Pollen; Sub fossil bones; Western Norway

Indexed keywords

EID: 60950270137     PISSN: 14614103     EISSN: 17496314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174963106x123188     Document Type: Article

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