The diversity of North American projectile-point types, before and after the bow and arrow

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-13

  Lee Lyman, R ^a   VanPool, Todd L ^a   O'Brien, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrow point types; Clade diversity; Cultural loss; Dart point types; Extinction; Innovation; Origination; Selection; Stimulated variation; Type diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 60749093282     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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