Shifting stones and changing homes: Using toolstone ratios to consider relative occupation span in the northwestern Great Basin

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 461-469

  Smith, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Basin; Mobility strategies; Obsidian; Occupation span; Paleoindian; Provenance analysis

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; HUNTER-GATHERER; OBSIDIAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROVENANCE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649495375     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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