Quebrada Jaguay: Early South American maritime adaptations

Science

Volumn 281, Issue 5384, 1998, Pages 1830-1832

  Sandweiss, Daniel H ^a   McInnis, Heather ^b   Burger, Richard L ^c   Cano, Asunción ^d   Ojeda, Bernardino ^e   Paredes, Rolando ^e   Sandweiss, María Del Carmen ^b   Glascock, Michael D ^f  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS   (Peru)

^e NONE   (Peru)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ECONOMIC HISTORY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MARINE RESOURCE; PLEISTOCENE; PREHISTORIC; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INDIAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA;

PERU;

EID: 0032544315     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5384.1830     Document Type: Article

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