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Ancient Maya subsistence diversity: root and tuber remains from Cuello, Belize

  • Jon G. Hather (a1) and Norman Hammond (a2)
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A first notice of the mushy element in the subsistence base of the Maya realms.

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Antiquity
  • ISSN: 0003-598X
  • EISSN: 1745-1744
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