Bone chemistry, body parts, and growth marks: Evaluating Ohio Hopewell and Cahokia Mississippian seasonality, subsistence, ritual, and feasting

American Antiquity

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 241-265

  Yerkes, Richard W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/40035703     Document Type: Review

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