Ethnobotanical remarks on Central and Southern Italy
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Ethnobotanical remarks on Central and Southern Italy
BACKGROUND The present paper is a brief survey on the ethnobotanical works published by the Authors since 1981, concerning the research carried out in some southern and central Italian regions. Before Roman domination these territories were first inhabited by local people, while the southern areas were colonized by the Greeks. These different cultural contributions left certain traces, both in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1746-4269
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-3-23