Plant foods in the Upper Palaeolithic at Dolní Věstonice? Parenchyma redux

Antiquity

Volumn 87, Issue 338, 2013, Pages 971-984

  Pryor, Alexander J E ^a   Steele, Madeline ^b   Jones, Martin K ^a   Svoboda, Jiří ^c,d   Beresford Jones, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b WeoGeo Inc   (United States)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d Institute of Archaeology   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; Czech Republic; Doln V stonice; Gravettian; Parenchyma; Plant foods; Upper Palaeolithic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888380679     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00049802     Document Type: Article

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