Across the Indian Ocean: The prehistoric movement of plants and animals

Antiquity

Volumn 85, Issue 328, 2011, Pages 544-558

  Fuller, Dorian Q ^a   Boivin, Nicole ^b   Hoogervorst, Tom ^b   Allaby, Robin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banana; Bronze age; Chicken; India; Island Southeast Asia; Millet; Neolithic; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957628236     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00067934     Document Type: Article

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