The bat creek stone revisited: A fraud exposed

American Antiquity

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 761-769

  Mainfort Jr , Robert C ^a   Kwas, Mary L ^a  

^a Arkansas Archeological Survey   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/4128448     Document Type: Article

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