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Early farming in the Middle Nile Basin: recent discoveries at Kadero (Central Sudan)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lech Krzyżaniak
Lech Krzyżaniak*
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Muzeum Archeologiczne w Poznaniu, 61-781 Poznań, Ul Wodna 27, Poland
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Kadero, in the central Sudan, offers new discoveries pertinent to the old and valuable question of early domesticates - both plant and animal - in the Middle and Upper Nile region.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 248 , September 1991 , pp. 515 - 532
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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