The diffusion of shell-tempered pottery into the Baytown area of the Northern Lower Mississippi Valley

Southeastern Archaeology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 172-192

  Lafferty III, Robert H ^a  

^a Mid Continental Research Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CERAMICS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SAND; SHELL;

ARKANSAS; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; MISSOURI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 60849086188     PISSN: 0734578X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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