The mortality of things: Correlates of use life in Wola material culture using age-at-census data

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 269-302

  Short, Michael J ^a   Sillitoe, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assemblage formation; Material culture; Use life; Wola

Indexed keywords

EID: 15344340124     PISSN: 10725369     EISSN: 15737764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1011669407409     Document Type: Article

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