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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jon G. Hather  and
Norman Hammond
Jon G. Hather
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, England
Norman Hammond
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA 02215, USA
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A first notice of the mushy element in the subsistence base of the Maya realms.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 259 , June 1994 , pp. 330 - 335
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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