Manioc agriculture and sedentism in Amazonia: The upper xingu example

Antiquity

Volumn 72, Issue 277, 1998, Pages 633-648

  Heckenberger, Michael J ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Amerindians; Contextual archaeology; Societal scale; Tropical agriculture subsistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039310893     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00087056     Document Type: Article

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