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Sorghum and Finger Millet Cultivation during the Aksumite Period: Insights from Ethnoarchaeological Modelling and Microbotanical Analysis Cover

Sorghum and Finger Millet Cultivation during the Aksumite Period: Insights from Ethnoarchaeological Modelling and Microbotanical Analysis

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
Volume 6 (2023): Issue 1
By: Abel Ruiz-Giralt,  Alemseged Beldados,  Stefano Biagetti,  Francesca D’Agostini,  A. Catherine D’Andrea,  Yemane Meresa and  Carla Lancelotti  
Open Access
|Sep 2023

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.132 | Journal eISSN: 2514-8362
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 26, 2023
Accepted on: Jul 31, 2023
Published on: Sep 11, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
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Keywords:
C4 agriculture,
cross-cultural modelling,
ethnoarchaeology,
phytoliths,
Kingdom of Aksum,
Horn of Africa

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