Staple or famine food?: Ethnographic and archaeological approaches to nut processing in East Asian prehistory

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-17

  Hosoya, Leo Aoi ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Archaeology; East Asia; Ethnography; Nut processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873841648     PISSN: 18669557     EISSN: 18669565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-011-0059-y     Document Type: Article

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