Exploitation of wild mammals in South-west Ethiopia during the Holocene (4000 BC-500 AD): The finds from Moche Borago shelter (Wolayta)

Environmental Archaeology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-159

  Lesur, Joséphine ^a   Vigne, Jean Denis ^a   Gutherz, Xavier ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VALÉRY   (France)

Author keywords

Archaeozoology; Ethiopia; Highland environments; Holocene; Hunting

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949920300     PISSN: 14614103     EISSN: 17496314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174963107x226417     Document Type: Article

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