Seed processing and the origins of food production in eastern north America

American Antiquity

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 215-233

  Gremillion, Kristen J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/4128417     Document Type: Article

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