Millet, the late comer: on the tracks of Panicum miliaceum in prehistoric Greece

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 51-63

  Valamoti, Soultana Maria ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bronze Age Greece; Crop introductions; Horse domestication; Panicum miliaceum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961167532     PISSN: 18669557     EISSN: 18669565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-013-0152-5     Document Type: Article

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