Distinguishing wild and domestic wheat and barley spikelets from early Holocene sites in the Near East

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 107-115

  Tanno, Ken ichi ^a   Willcox, George ^b  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University Lumière Lyon 2   (France)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Barley; Domestication; Near East; Origins; Wheat

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM DICOCCON; TRITICUM MONOCOCCUM;

EID: 84856808964     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-011-0316-0     Document Type: Article

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