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Two early finds of gold-of-pleasure (Camelina sp.) in middle Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites in western France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Laurent Bouby
Laurent Bouby*
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Centre d'Anthropologie, 56 Rue du Taur, 31000 Toulouse, France. anthropo@cict.fr
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Abstract

Two new finds of Camelina seeds prove the presence of the plant in middle Neolithic and Chalcolithic western France nearly 3000 years before widespread cultivation in France.

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NeolithicFrancegold-of-pleasureCamelinapalaeoethnobotany
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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 276 , June 1998 , pp. 391 - 398
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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