Early agriculture and crop transmission among Bronze Age mobile pastoralists of Central Eurasia

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1783, 2014, Pages

  Spengler, Robert ^a   Frachetti, Michael ^a   Doumani, Paula ^a   Rouse, Lynne ^a   Cerasetti, Barbara ^b   Bullion, Elissa ^a   Mar'yashev, Alexei ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Institute of History Archaeology and Ethnography A Kh Margulan   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Archaeobotany; Bronze age; Central Eurasia; Pastoralism

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; CROP PRODUCTION; PASTORALISM;

ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; INSECT GENOME; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MEIOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; DNA; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME, INSECT; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MEIOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX RATIO;

EURASIA;

EID: 84902670166     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3382     Document Type: Article

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