Testing Mounds B and E at Poverty Point

Southeastern Archaeology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 98-113

  Kidder, Tristram R ^a   Ortmann, Anthony ^b   Allen, Thurman ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA NRCS   (United States)

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE;

EID: 4344634157     PISSN: 0734578X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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