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Costantini, Lorenzo
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Pakistan//Iran//UAR//6M//3M//Phoenix
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Costantini, L. and L. Costantini-Biasini
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Iran//Pakistan
Costantini, Lorenzo and Loredana Costantini-Biasini
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Costantini, Lorenzo and Loredana Costantini-Biasini
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Pakistan//Nausharo//3M
Costantini, Lorenzo and Alessandro Lentini
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Harris, D.R., C. Gosden and M.P. Charles
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Turkmenistan//Jeitun//7M//6M
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Herrmann, G., K. Kurbansakhatov and St J. Simpson
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Hovsepyan, R. and G. Willcox
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Janushevich, Z.V.
1975 Fossil Remains of Cultivated Plants in the South West Soviet Union. Folia Quaternaria 46:
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USSR//Caucasus
Janushevich, Z.V.
1976 Kulturnije rastenija jugo-spada SSSR po paleobotanicheskim issledovanijam. Kishinev.
USSR
Janushevich, Z.V.
1977 O nakhodke yachmenya na poselenii Altyn-depe. Karakumskie Drevnosti 5: 162-169.
Turkmenistan//Altyn-depe//4M
Janushevich, Z.V.
1978 Prehistoric Food Plants in the South-West of the Soviet Union. Berichte der Deutschen
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Armenia//Turkmenistan
Janushevich, Z.V.
1984 The Specific Composition of Wheat Finds from Ancient Agricultural Centres in the USSR.
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USSR//Turkmenistan//Altyn-Depe//4M
Kajale, M.D.
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Kvavadze, Eliso and Kakha Kakhiani
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Kvavadze, Eliso, Goderdzi Narimanishvili, and Liana Bitadze
2010 Fibres of Linum (flax), Gossypium (cotton) and animal wool as non-pollen
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Kvavadze, E., L. Rukhadze, V. Nikolaishvili, et al.
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Lisitsina, Gorislava N.
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Lisitsina, Gorislava N.
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Lisitsina, G.N. and K.P. Popov
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Madella, Marco
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Meier-Melikyan, N.R.
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Moulherat, Christophe, Margareta Tengberg, Jérôme-F. Haquet,
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Turkmenistan//Merv//Sasanian//AD
Nesbitt, Mark
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Porteres, R.
1961 Sur quelques échantillons végétaux des fouilles de Mundigak. In
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Pakistan//Mundigak
Reddy, Seetha N.
1991 Archaeobotany at Oriyo Timbo 1989-90: A Post Urban Site in Gujarat. Man and Environment
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India//Oriyo Timbo//Harappan
Reddy, Seetha N.
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Reddy, Seetha
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Schultze-Motel, Jurgen
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Georgia
Tengberg, Margareta
1999 Crop Husbandry at Miri Qalat, Makran, SW Pakistan (4000-2000 B.C.).
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Tengberg, Margareta and Stephanie Thiébault
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Thiébault, Stephanie
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Willcox, G.W.
1991 Carbonised Plant Remains from Shortugaï. In New Light on Early Farming, ed. J.
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Afghanistan//Shortugaï//3M//Harappan
*NOTE: I have not personally seen every reference listed, and I include syntheses because some of the reports are linguistically or physically unavailable.