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The earliest farmers in Macedonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nancy C. Wilkie  and
Mary E. Savina
Nancy C. Wilkie
Affiliation:
Departments of Classics & Anthropology, Carleton College, One North College Street, Northfield MN 55057, USA. E-mail: nwilkie@carleton.edu
Mary E. Savina
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Carleton College, One North College Street, Northfield MN 55057, USA. E-mail: msavina@carleton.edu
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Survey in southwest Macedonia provides a new field record of the pattern of Neolithic settlement. It prompts a further opinion in the enduring debate about the nature of the diffusion of agriculture, discussed most recently in ANTIQUITY by van Andel & Runnels (1995).

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 271 , March 1997 , pp. 201 - 207
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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