Stratigraphy and bonebed taphonomy at Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 during the Middle Holocene (Altithermal)

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 47, Issue 183, 2002, Pages 339-358

  Seebach, John D ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altithermal; Archaic; Faunal analysis; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449955252     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2052546.2002.11949253     Document Type: Article

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