Environment and subsistence of the early inhabitants of coastal southwestern Nigeria

African Archaeological Review

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 183-201

  Alabi, Raphael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Environment; Historic period; Late Stone Age; Oral traditions; Southwestern Nigeria; Subsistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746033571     PISSN: 02630338     EISSN: 15729842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021259003743     Document Type: Article

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