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... Oakes Ames called the " carry - over period " of uninterrupted knowledge of food plants , from primate times on , which led in the mesolithic phase to the deliberate selection and improvement of food plants , particularly the tropical ...
... Oakes Ames called the " carry - over period " of uninterrupted knowledge of food plants , from primate times on , which led in the mesolithic phase to the deliberate selection and improvement of food plants , particularly the tropical ...
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... Ames , Adelbert . See Cantrill , Hadley . Ames , Oakes . Economic Annuals and Human Cultures . Cambridge : 1939 . Significant analysis of the domestication of food plants , which shows the need to revise the present picture of a sudden ...
... Ames , Adelbert . See Cantrill , Hadley . Ames , Oakes . Economic Annuals and Human Cultures . Cambridge : 1939 . Significant analysis of the domestication of food plants , which shows the need to revise the present picture of a sudden ...
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... Oakes Ames . Land and Life . A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer , edited , with an introduction by John Leighly . Berkeley : 1963 . A notable series of papers , many of them permanent landmarks in the interpretation of ...
... Oakes Ames . Land and Life . A Selection from the Writings of Carl Ortwin Sauer , edited , with an introduction by John Leighly . Berkeley : 1963 . A notable series of papers , many of them permanent landmarks in the interpretation of ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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