Late Quaternary prehistoric environments of the Colorado Front Range

Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology: From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 11-38

  Doerner, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

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