Prying New Meaning from Limpet Harvesting at Vale Boi During the Upper Paleolithic

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 273-289

  Manne, Tiina ^a   Bicho, Nuno F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Coastal Upwelling; Last Glacial Maximum; Marine Resource; Marine Shellfish; Shellfish Assemblage

Indexed keywords

EID: 85118639977     PISSN: 15682722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8219-3_11     Document Type: Chapter

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