Rethinking the Putu site: Results of a spatial analysis of a fluted point site in northern Alaska

Arctic Anthropology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 20-39

  Bever, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; EXCAVATION; PLEISTOCENE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748342709     PISSN: 00666939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/arc.2011.0014     Document Type: Article

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