A morphometric approach to assessing late Paleoindian projectile point variability on the southern High Plains

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 52, Issue 203, 2007, Pages 279-299

  Buchanan, Briggs ^a   Johnson, Eileen ^b   Strauss, Richard E ^b   Lewis, Patrick J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Sam Houston State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Digitizing; Late Paleoindian; Multivariate analyses; Projectile points; Southern High Plains

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748979699     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/pan.2007.019     Document Type: Article

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