Re-thinking great basin foragers: Prestige hunting and costly signaling during the middle archaic period

American Antiquity

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 695-712

  McGuire, Kelly R ^a   Hildebrandt, William R ^a  

^a Far Western Anthropological Research Group   (United States)

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EID: 33747872440     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/40035870     Document Type: Review

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