Two millennia of changes in human ecology: Archaeobotanical and invertebrate records from the lower Ica valley, south coast Peru

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 273-292

  Beresford Jones, David G ^a   Whaley, Oliver ^b   Ledesma, Carmela Alarcón ^c   Cadwallader, Lauren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^c Instituto de Investigaciones Andinas Punku   (Peru)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; Coca; Cotton; Invertebrates; Maize; Middle Horizon; Nasca; Ocucaje; Prosopis; South coast Peru

Indexed keywords

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; INVERTEBRATA; PROSOPIS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79958713325     PISSN: 09396314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00334-011-0292-4     Document Type: Article

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