Ancient farming in eastern North America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 6427-6428

  Price, T Douglas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ANTIQUITY; ARCHEOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP; DOMESTICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; NORTH AMERICA; NOTE; PLANT; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUASH; SUNFLOWER; ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; HUMAN;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GEOGRAPHY; HELIANTHUS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 66149117860     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902617106     Document Type: Note

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