Estimating the season of harvest of Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) with shells from the Chesapeake Bay

Southeastern Archaeology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-71

  Herbert, Joseph M ^a   Steponaitis, Laurie Cameron ^a  

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