Archaeological Evidence for the Tradition of Psychoactive Plant Use in the Old World

Economic Botany

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 295-323

  Merlin, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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