Culture contact or colonialism? Challenges in the archaeology of native North America

American Antiquity

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-74

  Silliman, Stephen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/40035268     Document Type: Article

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