From Asia to the Americas by boat? Paleogeography, paleoecology, and stemmed points of the northwest Pacific

Quaternary International

Volumn 239, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 28-37

  Erlandson, Jon M ^a   Braje, Todd J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MIDDEN; MIGRATION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; POSTGLACIAL; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SHELL;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTHEAST ASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 79957649754     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.02.030     Document Type: Article

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