Bison exploitation in the Wyoming Basin at the Middle/Late Holocene transition: A view from the Graham Ranch site

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 53, Issue 207, 2008, Pages 313-332

  Smith, Craig S ^a   Byers, David A ^b   Craven, Cynthia D ^c  

^a ENTRIX INC   (United States)

^b MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bison; Bone grease processing; Marginal value theorem; Wyoming Basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 51949085974     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/pan.2008.021     Document Type: Article

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