Agricultural soils of the prehistoric southwest: Known unknowns

Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture: Understanding the Past for the Future

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 54-88

  Sandor, Jonathan ^a   Homburg, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780816502189     Document Type: Chapter

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