Climate and diet in fremont prehistory: Economic variability and abandonment of maize agriculture in the Great Salt Lake basin

American Antiquity

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 453-485

  Coltrain, Joan Brenner ^a   Leavilt, Steven W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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