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A Note on the Neolithic Grain from Can Hasan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Jane M. Renfrew
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Small samples from two larger deposits of grain and seeds discovered in the 1967 season's work at Can Hasan were examined by the writer, and it was thought useful to submit a short note on them before the whole deposits were examined in detail. Both of them come from Layer 5.

The first sample (Can Hasan 1967 Batch 2203) contained 14 grains of Hordeum hexastichum (Hulled six-row barley) (Fig. 1), and 5 grains of Triticum sp. which were too fragmentary to be identified more specifically than as “wheat”.

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Research Article
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Anatolian Studies , Volume 18 , December 1968 , pp. 55 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1968

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References

1 For a discussion of the early finds in the Near East see Helbaek, H. 1966—“Commentary on the Phylogenesis of Triticum and Hordeum”, Economic Botany 20 (1966) p. 355 fGoogle Scholar.

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6 Helbaek, H., “First Impressions of the Çatal Hüyük Plant Husbandry”, Anatolian Studies XIV p. 122Google Scholar.

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9 J. M. Renfrew ibid. pp. 23–4.

10 J. M. Renfrew ibid. p. 27.

11 J. M. Renfrew ibid. pp. 28–9.