Neolithic, chalcolithic, and bronze age plant remains from el mirón cave: Evidence on the first farming communities in the cantabrian region

El Mirón Cave, Cantabrian Spain: The Site and its Holocene Archaeological Record

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 148-173

  Peña Chocarro, Leonor ^a  

^a Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales   (Spain)

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