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Gathering and Hunting Farmers; Farming Gatherers and Hunters: So, What?

Kathryn M. de Luna: Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2016, 352 pp., ISBN 9780300218534

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Chirikure, S. Gathering and Hunting Farmers; Farming Gatherers and Hunters: So, What?. Afr Archaeol Rev 36, 161–167 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-019-09327-z

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