Quantifying shell: Comments on Mason, Peterson, and Tiffany

American Antiquity

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 415-418

  Claassen, Cheryl ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0007657817     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2694068     Document Type: Review

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