Fuel uses in Cabeço da Amoreira shellmidden: An insight from charcoal analyses

Quaternary International

Volumn 431, Issue , 2017, Pages 27-38

  Monteiro, Patrícia Diogo ^a   Zapata, Lydia ^b   Bicho, Nuno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cabe o da Amoreira; Fuelwood; Mesolithic; Pinus; Portugal; Wood charcoal

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; COMBUSTION; EXPLOITATION; FUELWOOD; MESOLITHIC;

MUGE VALLEY; PORTUGAL; SANTAREM [PORTUGAL];

EID: 84957922987     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.01.014     Document Type: Article

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