Mass collecting and the diet breadth model: A Great Basin example

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 445-455

  Madsen, David B ^a   Schmitt, Dave N ^b  

^a UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Antiquities Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet breadth models; Grasshoppers; Great Basin; Large mammals; Mass collecting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000048044     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.1997.0245     Document Type: Article

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