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Did chickens go north? New evidence for domestication

Barbara WestDepartment of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History), LondonSW7 5BD and Environmental Archaeology Section, Museum of London, LondonEC2, UK
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Ben-Xiong Zhou Also known as Chow Ben-Shun, Professor of Archaeozoology, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
Pages 205-218 | Published online: 23 Sep 2019

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