Grinding Stones and Seeds of Change: Starch and Phytoliths as Evidence of Plant Food Processing

New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 159-172

  Fullagar, Richard ^a,b   Field, Judith ^a   Kealhofer, Lisa ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ceramic archaeometric project for Iron Age western Turkey   (United States)

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EID: 85150568113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315539058-19     Document Type: Chapter

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