What Actually was the Stone Age Diet?

Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 143-147

  Gowlett, J A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apes; Diet; Hominid origins; Palaeolithic; Stone age

Indexed keywords

APE; ARCHEOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; FRUIT; HISTORY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; HOMINIDAE;

EID: 0345690210     PISSN: 13590847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13590840310001619338     Document Type: Review

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