Consilience of genetics and archaeobotany in the entangled history of rice

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 115-131

  Fuller, Dorian Q ^a   Sato, Yo Ichiro ^b   Castillo, Cristina ^a   Qin, Ling ^c   Weisskopf, Alison R ^a   Kingwell Banham, Eleanor J ^a   Song, Jixiang ^a   Ahn, Sung Mo ^d   van Etten, Jacob ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Wonkwang University   (South Korea)

^e IE UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Dispersal; Domestication; Neolithic; Oryza sativa

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953735461     PISSN: 18669557     EISSN: 18669565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-010-0035-y     Document Type: Article

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