The early chronology of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in Europe

Antiquity

Volumn 87, Issue 338, 2013, Pages 1073-1085

  Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Giedre ^a,b   Staff, Richard A ^c   Hunt, Harriet V ^a   Liu, Xinyi ^a   Jones, Martin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMS dating; Broomcorn millet; Ceramic grain impressions; Eurasian connections; Europe; Neolithic; Panicum miliaceum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888336064     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00049875     Document Type: Article

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