The "Big House" at Whistling Elk village (39HU242): Geophysical findings and archaeological truths

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 47, Issue 180, 2002, Pages 5-16

  Toom, Dennis L ^a   Kvamme, Kenneth L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceremonial house; Communal house; Geophysical Methods; Initial Coalescent variant

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547740904     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2052546.2002.11932104     Document Type: Article

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