Archaeology: Invisible clues to new world plant domestication

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5609, 2003, Pages 1029-1030

  Bryant, Vaughn M ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DOMESTICATION; PLANT;

ARCHEOLOGY; DOMESTICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEXICO; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SHORT SURVEY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOUTH AMERICA;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEOLOGY; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CENTRAL AMERICA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CUCURBITA; FOSSILS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLANTS, EDIBLE; POLLEN; SOIL; SOUTH AMERICA; STARCH; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 0037436118     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1081624     Document Type: Short Survey

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