Comment on reinterpreting the pollen data from Dos Cabezas

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 531-541

  Reinhard, Karl J ^a   Bryant, Vaughn M ^b   Vinton, Sheila Dorsey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burial sediments; Debate; Method; Moche; Palynology; Peru; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 35549013670     PISSN: 1047482X     EISSN: 10991212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oa.886     Document Type: Note

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