Plant crop remains from the outer burial pit of the Han Yangling Mausoleum and their significance to Early Western Han agriculture

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1738-1743

  Yang, Xiaoyan ^a   Liu, Changjiang ^b   Zhang, Jianping ^c   Yang, Wuzhan ^d   Zhang, Xiaohu ^e   Lü, Houyuan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Crop remains; Early Western Han agriculture; Han Yangling Mausoleum

Indexed keywords

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; CHENOPODIUM ALBUM ALBUM; ORYZA SATIVA; PANICUM MILIACEUM; SETARIA (PLANT); SETARIA ITALICA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 67649090217     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-009-0048-z     Document Type: Article

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