Historical contingencies, issues of scale, and flightless hypotheses: A response to Hildebrandt et al

American Antiquity

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 689-699

  Jones, Terry L ^a   Codding, Brian F ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77956157656     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.75.3.689     Document Type: Article

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