Historical overview of archaeological research in the aleut region of Alaska

Human Biology

Volumn 82, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 487-506

  Veltre, Douglas W ^a   Smith, Melvin A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b Aleut Real Estate   (United States)

Author keywords

Aleut history; Aleutian Islands; Archaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751673791     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/027.082.0502     Document Type: Article

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