Late quaternary regional geoarchaeology of Southeast Alaska Karst: A progress report

Geoarchaeology - An International Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 689-712

  Dixon, E James ^a   Heaton, Timothy H ^b   Fifield, Terence E ^c   Hamilton, Thomas D ^d   Putnam, David E ^e   Grady, Frederick ^f  

^a Denver Museum Natural History   (United States)

^b W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e Smithsonian Institution ^*  (United States)

^f SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BEACH; BONE; CAVE; COLONIZATION; DATING METHOD; KARST; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL; VERTEBRATE;

CENTRAL AMERICA; NORTH AMERICA; PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 3042865082     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6548(199709)12:6<689::AID-GEA8>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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