Studying ancient crop provenance: Implications from δ13C and δ15N values of charred barley in a Middle Bronze Age silo at Ebla (NW Syria)

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 327-335

  Fiorentino, Girolamo ^a   Caracuta, Valentina ^a   Casiello, Grazia ^b   Longobardi, Francesco ^b   Sacco, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIZATION; GRAIN GROWTH; HARVESTING; TAXATION;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; BRONZE AGE; CENTRALISED; GRAIN VOLUME; GROWTH SITES; HISTORIC SITE; N VALUE; SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCTS; SITE CONDITIONS; STORAGE SYSTEMS;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

EID: 84855690998     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.5323     Document Type: Article

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