Long-distance logistic mobility as an organizing principle among northern hunter-gatherers: A great lakes middle holocene settlement system

American Antiquity

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 669-693

  Lovis, William A ^a   Donahue, Randolph E ^b   Holman, Margaret B ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33646818814     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/40035869     Document Type: Review

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