Pre-domestic cultivation during the late pleistocene and early holocene in the northern levant

Biodiversity in Agriculture: Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 92-109

  Willcox, George ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139019514.007     Document Type: Chapter

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