Earth-oven plant processing in archaic period economies: An example from a semi-arid Savannah in south-central North America

American Antiquity

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 659-674

  Dering, Phil ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2694211     Document Type: Article

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