Distribution of crops at late Early Bronze Age Titriş Höyük, southeast Anatolia: Towards a model for the identification of consumers of centrally organised food distribution

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-77

  Hald, Mette Marie ^a  

^a National Museum of Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; Central food distribution; Early Bronze Age; Early urban societies; Titri H y k

Indexed keywords

EID: 74149086681     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-009-0223-9     Document Type: Article

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