Opportunistic whale hunting on the Southern Northwest coast: Ancient DNA, artifact, and ethnographic evidence

American Antiquity

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 657-676

  Losey, Robert J ^a   Yang, Dongya Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 36749003807     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/25470439     Document Type: Article

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