Cotton cultivation and textile production in the Arabian Peninsula during antiquity; the evidence from Madâ'in Sâlih (Saudi Arabia) and Qal'at al-Bahrain (Bahrain)

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 405-417

  Bouchaud, Charlène ^a   Tengberg, Margareta ^a   Prà, Patricia Dal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b Institut National du Patrimoine   (France)

Author keywords

Achaemenian; Arabian Peninsula; Cotton; Gossypium; Nabatean and Early Islamic periods; Textile production

Indexed keywords

GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA;

EID: 80051871568     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-011-0296-0     Document Type: Article

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