Redefining the age of Clovis: Implications for the peopling of the Americas

Science

Volumn 315, Issue 5815, 2007, Pages 1122-1126

  Waters, Michael R ^a   Stafford Jr , Thomas W ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stafford Research Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

ARTIFACT; HISTORICAL TIME (HUMAN HISTORY); PREHISTORIC; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; TECHNOLOGY; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOUTH AMERICA; TIME;

CLOVIS; NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33847255950     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1137166     Document Type: Article

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