Investigation of ancient noodles, cakes, and millet at the Subeixi Site, Xinjiang, China

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 470-479

  Gong, Yiwen ^a   Yang, Yimin ^a   Ferguson, David K ^b   Tao, Dawei ^a   Li, Wenying ^c   Wang, Changsui ^a   Lü, Enguo ^c   Jiang, Hongen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c Institute of Archaeology   (China)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; Food processing; Phytolith analysis; Starch grain analysis

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; EXCAVATION; FOOD PROCESSING; PHYTOLITH; STARCH;

CHINA; XINJIANG UYGUR;

PANICUM MILIACEUM;

EID: 78649499721     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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