Shell middens as archives of past environments, human dispersal and specialized resource management

Quaternary International

Volumn 239, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 1-7

  Álvarez, Myrian ^a   Briz Godino, Ivan ^b,c   Balbo, Andrea ^b   Madella, Marco ^b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79957631317     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2010.10.025     Document Type: Editorial

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