The North Atlantic ice-edge corridor: A possible palaeolithic route to the New World

World Archaeology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 459-478

  Bradley, Bruce ^a   Stanford, Dennis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clovis; Colonization of New World; Ice edge corridor; Paleoindian; Pre Clovis; Solutrean

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MIGRATION; PALEOLITHIC;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11044237470     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0043824042000303656     Document Type: Article

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