Source area analysis of obsidian flakes from a Lower Loup phase site in Nebraska

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 44, Issue 167, 1999, Pages 77-82

  Hughes, Richard E ^a   Roper, Donna C ^b  

^a Geochemical Research Laboratory   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lower Loup phase.; Obsidian; Source analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005661192     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2052546.1999.11931939     Document Type: Article

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