Theoretical and actualistic ecobotanical perspectives on early hominin diets and paleoecology

Evolution Of The Human Diet: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 233-261

  Peters, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arboreal; Contingency; Ecobotanical; Evaluating; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865784004     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195183474.003.0013     Document Type: Chapter

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