Season of death of the Dent mammoths distinguishing single from multiple mortality events

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 123-153

  Fisher, Daniel C ^a   Fox, David L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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