An evaluation of competing hypotheses for the early adoption of wheat in East Asia

World Archaeology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 775-798

  Barton, Loukas ^a   An, Cheng Bang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; diffusion of innovations; early agriculture; East West interactions; Triticum spp; wheat

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGY; INNOVATION; PREHISTORIC; WHEAT;

CHINA;

TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84908569630     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2014.953703     Document Type: Article

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