Towards a distinction between digested and undigested glume bases in the archaeobotanical record from Neolithic northern Greece: A preliminary experimental investigation

Environmental Archaeology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 31-42

  Valamoti, Soultana Maria ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dung; Feeding experiment; Glume wheat chaff; Triticum monococcum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877150181     PISSN: 14614103     EISSN: 17496314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1461410313Z.00000000021     Document Type: Article

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