Conquistadors, excavators, or rodents: What damaged the King site skeletons?

American Antiquity

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 355-363

  Milner, George R ^a   Larsen, Clark Spencer ^b   Hutchinson, Dale L ^c   Williamson, Matthew A ^d   Humpf, Dorothy A ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001135292     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2694063     Document Type: Article

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