Was agriculture a key productive activity in pre-colonial Amazonia? The stable productive basis for social equality in the central Amazon

Human-Environment Interactions: Current and Future Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 371-388

  Neves, Eduardo Góes ^a  

^a Museum de Arqueologia e Etnologia   (Brazil)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4780-7_16     Document Type: Chapter

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