Comment on clement et al. 2015 ‘the domestication of amazonia before european conquest’

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1821, 2015, Pages

  McMichael, C H ^a   Piperno, D R ^b,c   Bush, M B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN;

ARCHAEOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS;

EID: 84951736602     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1837     Document Type: Note

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