Farming practice and land management at Knossos, Crete: New insights from δ13C and δ15N analysis of Neolithic and Bronze Age crop remains
Neolithic agriculture in the Aegean encompassed a diverse spectrum of cereals and pulses (Halstead 1994; Valamoti and Kotsakis 2007), and plausibly entailed intensive management (i.e. with careful tillage, weeding, manuring and watering, as needed) on a small scale in order to achieve marginal surpl...
Main Authors: | Nitsch, E, Jones, G, Sarpaki, A, Hald, M, Bogaard, A |
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Other Authors: | Garcia, D |
Format: | Conference item |
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Archaeopress
2019
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