Core/biface ratios, mobility, refitting, and artifact use-lives: A Paleoindian example

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 45, Issue 173, 2000, Pages 273-290

  Bamforth, Douglas B ^a   Becker, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Core biface ratios; Lithic analysis; Mobility; Paleoindian; Site formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006265701     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2052546.2000.11931976     Document Type: Article

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