Antiquity of early Holocene small-seed consumption and processing at Danger Cave

Antiquity

Volumn 80, Issue 308, 2006, Pages 328-339

  Rhode, David ^a   Madsen, David B ^a   Jones, Kevin T ^b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Utah Division of State History   (United States)

Author keywords

Danger Cave; Post Pleistocene; Subsistence strategies

Indexed keywords

FOOD CONSUMPTION; HOLOCENE; SEED; SUBSISTENCE;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; SALICORNIA;

EID: 33749445284     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00093650     Document Type: Article

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