Floodwater farming, discontinuous ephemeral streams, and Puebloan abandonment in southwestern Colorado

American Antiquity

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 595-616

  Huckleberry, Gary A ^a   Billman, Brian R ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

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EID: 0008665075     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2694110     Document Type: Article

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