Bone Color as an Interpretive Tool of the Depositional History of Archaeological Cremains

The Analysis of Burned Human Remains

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 109-128

  Devlin, Joanne B ^a   Herrmann, Nicholas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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EID: 58149161081     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012372510-3.50008-3     Document Type: Chapter

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