Early Neolithic Water Wells Reveal the World's Oldest Wood Architecture

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Tegel, Willy ^a   Elburg, Rengert ^b   Hakelberg, Dietrich ^a   Stäuble, Harald ^b   Büntgen, Ulf ^c,d   Petraglia, Michael D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Archaeological Heritage Office Saxony   (Germany)

^c SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARCHEOLOGY; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; CARPENTER; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GERMANY; NEOLITHIC; OAK; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; SKILL; SOCIAL BELIEF; TECHNOLOGY; WOOD;

ARCHAEOLOGY; FOSSILS; QUERCUS; RIVERS; WATER WELLS; WOOD;

EID: 84871286278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051374     Document Type: Article

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