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Alternative strategies to agriculture: the evidence for climatic shocks and cereal declines during the British Neolithic and Bronze Age (a reply to Bishop)

Chris J. StevensUniversity College London Institute of Archaeology, 31–34 Gordon Square, LondonWC1H 0PYView further author information
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Dorian Q FullerUniversity College London Institute of Archaeology, 31–34 Gordon Square, LondonWC1H 0PYCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 856-875 | Published online: 29 Oct 2015

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Rosie R. Bishop. (2015) Summed radiocarbon probability distributions from cereal grains: arable cultivation proxy or the ‘archaeology of us’? (a reply to Stevens and Fuller 2015). World Archaeology 47:5, pages 876-881.
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