Development of an agroforest on a Micronesian high island: Prehistoric Kosraean agriculture

Antiquity

Volumn 70, Issue 270, 1996, Pages 834-846

  Athens, J Stephen ^a   Ward, Jerome V ^b   Murakami, Gail M ^a  

^a International Archaeological Research Institute Incorporated   (United States)

^b Pacific Palynology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; AGROFORESTRY DEVELOPMENT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; HISTORICAL STUDY; KOSRAE WASTEWATER PROJECT; PREHISTORIC AGRICULTURE; SEDIMENT CORE; WETLAND;

MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF, KOSRAE;

EID: 0030441919     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00084106     Document Type: Article

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