Early diffusion of domestic bovids in Europe: An indicator for human contacts, exchanges and migrations?

Becoming Eloquent: Advances in the Emergence of Language, Human Cognition, and Modern Cultures

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 69-90

  Tresset, Anne ^a   Bollongino, Ruth ^a,b   Edwards, Ceiridwen J ^c   Hughes, Sandrine ^d   Vigne, Jean Denis ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

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DOI: 10.1075/z.152     Document Type: Chapter

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