Kuku-Yalanji rainforest aboriginal people and carbohydrate resource management in the wet tropics of Queensland, Australia

Human Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-52

  Hill, Rosemary ^a   Baird, Adelaide ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Post Office   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian aborigines; Carbohydrate management; Fire; Rainforest

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; FIRE MANAGEMENT; HUNTER-GATHERER; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; RAINFOREST;

AUSTRALIA;

CYCAS; CYCAS MEDIA;

EID: 0037655059     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022830123349     Document Type: Article

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