Pig domestication in ancient China

Antiquity

Volumn 76, Issue 293, 2002, Pages 724-732

  Jing, Yuan ^a   Flad, Rowan K ^b  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal domestication; China; Cishan; Neolithic; Pig

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DOMESTICATION; NEOLITHIC; PIG;

CHINA;

EID: 0036736186     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00091171     Document Type: Article

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