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Canarium in the Southeast Asian and Oceanic archaeobotanical and pollen records

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

B. K. Maloney
B. K. Maloney*
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Palaeoecology Centre, The Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland. E-mail: [email protected]
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Canarium is a group of rainforest trees found in southeast Asia and into the Pacific, whose nuts are edible. The nuts have quite often been found in early archaeological contexts: that evidence and the palaeobotanical record largely deriving from pollen now enables some rounded account of the early human place of the tree and its nuts.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 270 , December 1996 , pp. 926 - 933
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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