The Significance of New Faunal Identifications Attributed to an Early Paleoindian (Gainey Complex) Occupation at the Udora Site, Ontario, Canada

American Antiquity

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 121-142

  Storck, Peter L ^a   Spiess, Arthur E ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^b Maine Hist Preservation Commission   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/3085506     Document Type: Article

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