Food globalization in prehistory

World Archaeology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 665-675

  Jones, Martin ^a   Hunt, Harriet ^b   Lightfoot, Emma ^b   Lister, Diane ^b   Liu, Xinyi ^b   Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Giedre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Food Globalisation in Prehistory Project (ERC funded)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Archaeobotany; Asia; Bronze Age; Globalization; Neolithic

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; BRONZE AGE; DIET; GLOBALIZATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOBOTANY; PREHISTORIC;

EURASIA;

EID: 84862907848     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2011.624764     Document Type: Article

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