The Early Mississippian frontier in the Lower Chattahoochee-Apalachicola river valley

Southeastern Archaeology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 117-135

  Blitz, John H ^a   Lorenz, Karl G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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CULTURAL HISTORY; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MATERIAL CULTURE; POPULATION MIGRATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036995331     PISSN: 0734578X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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