Distinguishing exploitation, domestication, cultivation and production: The olive in the third millennium Aegean

Antiquity

Volumn 87, Issue 337, 2013, Pages 746-757

  Margaritis, Evi ^a,b  

^a American School of Classical Studies at Athens   (Greece)

^b CYPRUS INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Aegean; Archaeobotany; Bronze Age; Civilisation; Cultivation; Domestication; Olive; Production; Third second millennia bc

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883279578     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00049437     Document Type: Article

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