Documenting the presence of maize in central and South America through phytolith analysis of food residues

Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 82-95

  Thompson, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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