The Ventana Complex: New dates and new ideas on its place in early Holocene western prehistory

American Antiquity

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 353-371

  Huckell, Bruce B ^a   Haynes, C Vance ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 33749426337     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3557084     Document Type: Article

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