Drought-related changes in two hunter-gatherer California populations

Quaternary Research

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 393-396

  Weiss, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DROUGHT; HUNTER-GATHERER; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036871448     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.2002.2384     Document Type: Article

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