Early occupations and cultural sequence at Moose Creek: A late Pleistocene site in central Alaska

Arctic

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 332-345

  Pearson, Georges A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Beringia; Denali complex; Nenana complex; Paleoindians; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIMATE;

ALASKA; MOOSE CREEK; UNITED STATES;

ALCES ALCES; HOMINIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033367323     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14430/arctic940     Document Type: Article

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