Ancient vegetarians? Absorbed pottery residue analysis of diet in the Late Woodland and Emergent Mississippian periods of the Mississippi Valley

Southeastern Archaeology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 110-120

  Reber, Eleanora A ^a   Evershed, Richard P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTURAL HISTORY; DIET;

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33750589348     PISSN: 0734578X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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