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Ecological Interpretations and Plant Domestication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Harold C. Conklin
Harold C. Conklin*
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Columbia University, New York, N. Y.
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Abstract

Ecologically oriented studies in anthropology can be improved by greater familiarity with standard botanical and agricultural sources (many of which are listed in this paper) on the enumeration, classification, domestication, and use of culturally significant plants.

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American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , October 1959, pp. 260 - 262
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1959

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