Horticultural experimentation in Northern Australia reconsidered

Antiquity

Volumn 83, Issue 321, 2009, Pages 634-648

  Denham, Tim ^a   Donohue, Mark ^b   Booth, Sara ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Banana; Holocene; Palaeobotany; Pleistocene; Taro; Torres Strait; Yam

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953052413     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00098884     Document Type: Article

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