Plant remains from waterlogged sites in the Arawe Islands, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea: Implications for the history of plant use and domestication

Economic Botany

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 121-133

  Matthews, Peter J ^a   Gosden, Chris ^b  

^a NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ETHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aboriculture; Archaeology; Beach drift; Botany; Canarium; Cordia; Papua New Guinea; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

CANARIUM; CORDIA;

EID: 0030996913     PISSN: 00130001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02893102     Document Type: Article

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