Rethinking Precolonial Plant Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America

Professional Geographer

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 140-157

  Deur, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Estuaries; Ethnographic representation; Indigenous peoples; Northwest Coast; Plant cultivation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; COASTAL ZONE; CULTIVATION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION;

CANADA;

EID: 0036263026     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00322     Document Type: Article

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