Environment, crops and harvesting strategies during the II millennium BC: Resilience and adaptation in socio-economic systems of Bronze Age communities in Apulia (SE Italy)

Quaternary International

Volumn 436, Issue , 2017, Pages 83-95

  Primavera, M ^a   D'Oronzo, C ^a   Muntoni, I M ^b   Radina, F ^b   Fiorentino, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Puglia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; Bronze Age; Climate changes; Late Holocene; South Italy; Subsistence strategies

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP PRODUCTION; HARVESTING; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOCLIMATE; SUBSISTENCE;

ITALY; PUGLIA;

EID: 84936805704     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.070     Document Type: Article

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