Cultural response or geological process? A comment on Sheehan

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 41, Issue 158, 1996, Pages 383-393

  Artz, Joe Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Altithermal; Early Archaic; Geoarchaeology; Northern Plains; Survey methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343917153     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2052546.1996.11931814     Document Type: Review

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