Archaeological geology of the Mescalero Sands, southeastern New Mexico

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 53, Issue 207, 2008, Pages 279-290

  Hall, Stephen A ^a   Goble, Ronald J ^b  

^a Red Rock Geological Enterprises   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeological geologic map; Eolian geomorphology; Geoarchaeology; New Mexico archaeology; OSL

Indexed keywords

EID: 51949085976     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/pan.2008.019     Document Type: Article

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