Early Neolithic Water Wells Reveal the World's Oldest Wood Architecture

Willy Tegel; Rengert Elburg; Dietrich Hakelberg; Harald Stäuble; Ulf Büntgen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051374

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Early Neolithic Water Wells Reveal the World's Oldest Wood Architecture

Willy Tegel ,

* E-mail: tegel@dendro.de

Affiliation Institute for Forest Growth IWW, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Rengert Elburg,

Affiliation Archaeological Heritage Office Saxony, Dresden, Germany
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Dietrich Hakelberg,

Affiliation Institute for Forest Growth IWW, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Harald Stäuble,

Affiliation Archaeological Heritage Office Saxony, Dresden, Germany
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Ulf Büntgen

Affiliations Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland
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Early Neolithic Water Wells Reveal the World's Oldest Wood Architecture

Willy Tegel,
Rengert Elburg,
Dietrich Hakelberg,
Harald Stäuble,
Ulf Büntgen

Published: December 19, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051374

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