First wave of cultivators spread to Cyprus at least 10,600 y ago

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 8445-8449

  Vigne, Jean Denis ^a   Briois, François ^b   Zazzo, Antoine ^a   Willcox, George ^c   Cucchi, Thomas ^a,d   Thiébault, Stéphanie ^a   Carrère, Isabelle ^b   Franel, Yodrik ^e   Touquet, Régis ^e   Martin, Chloé ^a   Moreau, Christophe ^f   Comby, Clothilde ^f   Guilaine, Jean ^b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b EHESS Toulouse   (France)

^c University Lumière Lyon 2   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives INRAP   (France)

^f Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Domestication; Food production; Neolithic mobility; Prehistoric seafaring; Sus scrofa

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CEREAL; CYPRUS; DEMOGRAPHY; MEAT; MIGRATION; NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CEREALS; CYPRUS; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HORDEUM; HUMANS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TOOTH; TRITICUM;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; SUS SCROFA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84861898111     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201693109     Document Type: Article

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