The onset of faba bean farming in the Southern Levant

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Caracuta, Valentina ^a,b   Barzilai, Omry ^a,c   Khalaily, Hamudi ^c   Milevski, Ianir ^c   Paz, Yitzhak ^c   Vardi, Jacob ^c   Regev, Lior ^a,b   Boaretto, Elisabetta ^a,b  

^a Max Planck Weizmann Center for Integrative Archaeology and Anthropology   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; BAYES THEOREM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; VICIA FABA;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEOLOGY; BAYES THEOREM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; VICIA FABA;

EID: 84944339928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep14370     Document Type: Article

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