Land-use change for rice and foxtail millet cultivation in the Chengtoushan site, central China, reconstructed from weed seed assemblages

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-14

  Nasu, Hiroo ^a   Gu, Hai Bin ^b   Momohara, Arata ^c   Yasuda, Yoshinori ^d  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b Hunan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; China; Foxtail millet; Land use; Rice; Weed

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856616516     PISSN: 18669557     EISSN: 18669565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-011-0077-9     Document Type: Article

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