Infant feeding and weaning practices in Roman Egypt.

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  American Journal of Physical Anthropology

• Publication date

  2001-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, History

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  DOI 10.1002/AJPA.1075PMID 11424072
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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