Transition to farming - Transition to milk culture: A case study from Mala Triglavca, Slovenia

Documenta Praehistorica

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 97-117

  Budja, Mihael ^a   Ogrinc, Nives ^b   Gašparič, Andreja Žibrat ^a   Potočnik, Doris ^b   Žigon, Dušan ^b   Mlekuž, Dimitrij ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Dairying; Demic diffusion; European Neolithic; Lactase persistence; Lipids; Transition to farming; Vla ka culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901318229     PISSN: 1408967X     EISSN: 18542492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4312/dp.40.9     Document Type: Article

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