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Hovsepyan, R. and G. Willcox
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2008 Botanical and zoological remains from an early medieval grave at
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2002 Preliminary Report on the Charcoal Analysis of Tell Shiukh
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2008 Collapsed Beams and Wooden Remains from a 3200 BC Temple
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2002 Palaeoethnobotany: Preliminary Results. In Sha'ar
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2009 Dendroarchaeological Excavations: H. Shallale, Mt. Carmel. In
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Beech, Mark and Elizabeth Shepherd
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Longford, Catherine, Andrew Drinnan, and Antonio Sagona
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2008 Faune et flore des niveaux profonds de Shahi-Tump (Balochistan,
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2008 A Thousand Years of Farming: Late Chalcolithic Agricultural
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Genequand, H., H. Amoroso, M. Haldemann, et al.
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van Zeist, Willem
2008 Comments on Plant Cultivation at Two Sites on the Khabur,
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Willcox, George, Sandra Fornite, and Linda Herveux
2008 Early Holocene Cultivation before Domestication in Northern Syria.
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17: 313-325.
Syria//T. Qaramel//Jerf el Ahmar//Dja'de//T. 'Abr//Epipaleo