The agricultural demographic transition during and after the agriculture inventions

Current Anthropology

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2011, Pages

  Bocquet Appel, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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EID: 80054948480     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/659243     Document Type: Article

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