14,000-year-old seeds indicate the Levantine origin of the lost progenitor of faba bean

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Caracuta, Valentina ^a,b   Weinstein Evron, Mina ^c   Kaufman, Daniel ^c   Yeshurun, Reuven ^c   Silvent, Jeremie ^d,e   Boaretto, Elisabetta ^a,b  

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

^b D REAMS Radiocarbon Laboratory   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOMESTICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; NEOLITHIC; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; SPECIES; VICIA FABA; WILD TYPE; X RAY; CROP; GENETICS; HISTORY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DOMESTICATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; ISRAEL; SEEDS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VICIA FABA;

EID: 84996866919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep37399     Document Type: Article

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