First dairying in green Saharan Africa in the fifth millennium bc

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  2012

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2012-06-20

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1038/nature11186PMID 22722200
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