Soil properties and pre-Columbian settlement patterns in the monumental mounds region of the llanos de moxos, Bolivian amazon

SOIL

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-81

  Lombardo, U ^a,b   Denier, S ^a   Veit, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATENA; DETECTION METHOD; HOLOCENE; MONUMENT; SOIL PROPERTY; TOXICITY;

BRAZIL; RIO GRANDE BASIN [BRAZIL];

EID: 84949093862     PISSN: 21993971     EISSN: 2199398X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/soil-1-65-2015     Document Type: Article

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