The Nelson site, a Cody occupation in northeastern Colorado

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 52, Issue 203, 2007, Pages 257-278

  Kornfeld, Marcel ^a   Larson, Mary Lou ^a   Arnold, Craig ^a   Wiewel, Adam ^a   Toft, Mike ^b   Stanford, Dennis ^c  

^a George C Frison Institute   (United States)

^b Smithsonian Institution ^*  (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chipped stone; Cody; Paleoindian; Seasonality; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748939987     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/pan.2007.018     Document Type: Article

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