The dead must be fed: Symbolic meanings of the shellmounds of the San Francisco Bay Area

Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 95-108

  Luby, Edward M ^a   Gruber, Mark F ^a  

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EID: 0008361502     PISSN: 09597743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0959774300015225     Document Type: Article

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