Identifying manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) and other crops in pre-Columbian tropical America through starch grain analysis: A case study from central Panama

Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 46-66

  Piperno, Dolores R ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

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