The Antiquity of Aroid Pit Agriculture and Significance of Buried a Horizons on Pacific Atolls

Geoarchaeology - An International Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 621-654

  Weisler, Marshall I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOLL; CHARCOAL; COLONIZATION; CORAL; CULTIVATION; DETECTION METHOD; FORAMINIFERA; LAGOON; MOLLUSC; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

MARSHALL ISLANDS;

EID: 0000545404     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6548(199910)14:7<621::AID-GEA2>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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