Modeling the significance of paleoenvironmental context for early hominin diets

Evolution Of The Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 289-307

  Sept, Jeanne ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demonstrate; Interpretations; Paleoenvironments; Perspective; Significant

Indexed keywords

EID: 76549084729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195183474.003.0015     Document Type: Chapter

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