The Shell Assemblage from Morhiss (41VT1), an Archaic Site on the West Gulf Coastal Plain

Southeastern Archaeology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 211-219

  Dockall, Helen Danzeiser ^a   Dockall, John E ^a  

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