Historicizing Foraging in South Asia: Power, History, and Ecology of Holocene Hunting and Gathering

Archaeology of Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 279-302

  Morrison, Kathleen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Ecology of holocene hunting; Foraging; Holocene hunter gatherers; Wage labor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889378110     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470774670.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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