The human environment during the terminal pleistocene and holocene in northeastern Thailand: Phytolith evidence from lake Kumphawapi

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 229-254

  Kealhofer, Lisa ^a  

^a Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Burning; Palaeoenvironment; Phytoliths; Rice; Southeast Asia; Subsistence; Thailand

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002425999     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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