Plant-food economy during the Epipalaeolithic period at Tell Abu Hureyra, Syria: Dietary diversity, seasonality, and modes of exploitation

Foraging and Farming: The Evolution of Plant Exploitation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 240-268

  Hillman, Gordon C ^a   Colledge, Susan M ^b   Harris, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315746425     Document Type: Chapter

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