The plant component of an Acheulian diet at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 51, 2016, Pages 14674-14679

  Melamed, Yoel ^a   Kislev, Mordechai E ^a   Geffen, Eli ^b   Lev Yadun, Simcha ^c   Goren Inbar, Naama ^d  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acheulian; Food plants; Paleo diet; Seasonality; Use of fire

Indexed keywords

ACHEULIAN DIET; ARTICLE; BOTANY; DIET; EURASIAN DIET; FOOD; FOOD CROP; FOSSIL HOMININ; FRUIT; ISRAEL; MACROBOTANICAL REMAIN; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; NONHUMAN; NUT; PLANT SEED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; VEGETABLE; AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; ECOLOGY; FIRE; FOSSIL; HOMINID; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; DIET; ECOLOGY; FIRES; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; ISRAEL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SEEDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85006372709     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1607872113     Document Type: Article

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