Moving North: Archaeobotanical Evidence for Plant Diet in Middle and Upper Paleolithic Europe

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402096983, 2009, Pages 171-180

  Jones, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeobotany; Plant foods

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958738947     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9699-0_12     Document Type: Chapter

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