Through the High Rock and beyond: Placing the Last Supper Cave and Parman Paleoindian lithic assemblages into a regional context

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3568-3576

  Smith, Geoffrey M ^a   Kielhofer, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Basin; Mobility; Obsidian; Paleoindians; Source provenance studies

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; CAVE; HUNTER-GATHERER; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MOBILITY; PROVENANCE; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

GREAT BASIN; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054710427     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.08.027     Document Type: Article

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