Domestication and varietal diversification of Old World cultivated cottons (Gossypium sp.) in the Antiquity
Textile use of the cotton fibres from the Old World species Gossypium arboreum (Tree Cotton) and G. herbaceum (Levant Cotton) started around eight thousand years ago and possibly earlier. During the third millennium before the present, cotton cultivation, textile use and trading developed strongly i...
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Laboratoire Éco-anthropologie et Ethnobiologie
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Revue d'ethnoécologie |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ethnoecologie/4404 |