The origins of plant cultivation and domestication in the New World Tropics patterns, process, and new developments

Current Anthropology

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2011, Pages

  Piperno, Dolores R ^a  

^a National Museum of Natural History   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/659998     Document Type: Article

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